Chailicyon Explained

Chailicyon is an extinct genus in the basal Carnivoramorph family Miacidae that lived in Asia during the Middle to Late Eocene.^[1]

Taxonomy

Chailicyon was named by Chow (1975). It was assigned to Miacidae by Carroll (1988).

Sources

• museum03.museumwww.naturekundmuseum-berlin.de
• The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America by Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry

Notes and References

1. Book: McKenna . M. C. . Bell . S. K. . 1997 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-11013-6 . 631 . Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level .