Prolimnocyon

<i>Prolimnocyon</i>

Prolimnocyon

Extinct family of mammals

Prolimnocyon ("before Limnocyon") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonid hyaenodonts that lived in Asia and North America during the late Paleocene to middle Eocene.[6] Prolimnocyon chowi is the earliest known member of the hyaenodontid family Limnocyonidae.[7]

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