''Chailicyon'' is an extinct genus in the basal
Carnivoramorph family
Miacidae
Miacids are extinct primitive carnivoramorphans within the family Miacidae that lived during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 62–34 million years ago. Miacids existed for approximately .
Miacids are thought to have evolved into the ...
that lived in Asia during the Middle to Late Eocene.
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
Miacids
Eocene carnivorans
Eocene mammals of Asia
Prehistoric placental genera
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