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Vulpavus
Temporal range: early to middle Eocene |
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| Skeleton of Vulpavus ovatus at the American Museum of Natural History |
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| Life restoration of V. ovatus |
Scientific classification  |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Mammalia |
| Clade: |
Pan-Carnivora |
| Clade: |
Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: |
Carnivoraformes |
| Genus: |
†Vulpavus
Marsh, 1871 |
| Type species |
†Vulpavus palustris
Marsh, 1871 |
| Species |
- †V. australis Matthew & Granger, 1915[1]
- †V. canavus (Cope, 1881)[2]
- †V. completus Matthew, 1909[3]
- †V. farsonensis Gunnell, 1998[4]
- †V. palustris Marsh, 1871[5]
- †V. profectus Matthew, 1909
- Subgenus: †Phlaodectes Matthew, 1909
- †V. ovatus (Matthew, 1909)
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| Synonyms |
- Vulpavus asius Gazin, 1952[6]
- Miacis brevirostris Cope, 1881
- Miacis canavus Cope, 1881
- Prodaphaenus canavus Wortman, 1901[7]
- Uintacyon brevirostris Matthew, 1899[8]
- Uintacyon canavus Matthew, 1899
- Phlaodectes ovatus Matthew, 1909
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Vulpavus ("ancestor of foxes") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[9][10]
Phylogeny
The phylogenetic relationships of genus Vulpavus are shown in the following cladogram:[11][12][13][14]
| Carnivoramorpha |
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†Gracilocyon/Oodectes clade †Vulpavus clade |
(Carnivora [sensu lato]) |
References
- ↑ W. D. Matthew and W. Granger (1915.) "A revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River faunas." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34(1):1-103
- ↑ E. D. Cope (1881.) "On the Vertebrata of the Wind River Eocene beds of Wyoming." Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 6(1):183-202
- ↑ W. D. Matthew (1909.) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567
- ↑ G. F. Gunnell (1998.) "Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(3):83-130
- ↑ O. C. Marsh (1871.) "Notice of some new fossil mammals and birds from the Tertiary formation of the West." Archived 2022-02-26 at the Wayback Machine American Journal of Science 2(8):120-127
- ↑ C. L. Gazin (1952.) "The Lower Eocene Knight Formation Of Western Wyoming and Its Mammalian Faunas." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(18):1-82
- ↑ J. L. Wortman (1901.) "Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum." The American Journal of Science, series 4 12:193-206
- ↑ J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899.) "A provisional classification of the fresh-water Tertiary of the West." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12:19-75
- ↑ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ↑ J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2
- ↑ Flynn, John J.; Finarelli, John A.; Spaulding, Michelle (2010). "Phylogeny of the Carnivora and Carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations". In Goswami, Anjali; Friscia, Anthony (eds.). Carnivoran evolution. New views on phylogeny, form and function. Cambridge University Press. pp. 25–63. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139193436.003. ISBN 978-1-139-19343-6.
- ↑ Solé, Floréal; Smith, Richard; Coillot, Tiphaine; de Bast, Eric; Smith, Thierry (2014). "Dental and tarsal anatomy of Miacis latouri and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest carnivoraforms (Mammalia, Carnivoramorpha)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (1): 1–21. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34....1S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.793195. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86207013.
- ↑ Solé, Floréal; Smith, Thierry; De Bast, Eric; Codrea, Vlad; Gheerbrant, Emmanuel (2016). "New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (2) e1082480. Bibcode:2016JVPal..36E2480S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1082480. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 87537565.
- ↑ Tomiya, S.; Zack, S. P.; Spaulding, M.; Flynn, J. J. (2021). "Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world". Journal of Paleontology. 95 (Supplement S82): 1–115. Bibcode:2021JPal...95S...1T. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.74. hdl:2433/274918.
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