Prolimnocyon

Prolimnocyon; Temporal range: 57.0–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N late Paleocene to middle Eocene
	lower jaw of Prolimnocyon antiquus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Hyaenodonta
Family:	†Hyaenodontidae
Subfamily:	†Limnocyoninae
Genus:	†Prolimnocyon; Matthew, 1915
Type species
	†Prolimnocyon atavus; Matthew, 1915
Species
	†P. antiquus (Matthew & Granger, 1915); †P. atavus (Matthew & Granger, 1915); †P. chowi (Meng, 1998); †P. eerius (Gingerich, 1989); †P. haematus (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989);
Synonyms
	synonyms of species: P. antiquus: Prolimnocyon elisabethae (Gazin, 1952) ; ;

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]

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
^ J. Meng, R. J. Zhai and A. R. Wyss (1998.) "The late Paleocene Bayan Ulan fauna of Inner Mongolia, China." Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:148-185
^ P. D. Gingerich (1989.) "New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97
^ P. D. Gingerich and H. A. Deutsch (1989.) "Systematics and Evolution of Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae (Mammalia, Creodonta) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming." Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 27(13):327-391
^ C. L. Gazin (1952.) "The Lower Eocene Knight Formation Of Western Wyoming and Its Mammalian Faunas." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117(18):1-82
^ "Fossilworks: Prolimnocyon". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ Rose, Kenneth D. (2009). The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-8018-9221-9.