''Paramiacis'' is an extinct

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of Miacidae. Christian Mathis has defined to make a difference between the miacids from Europe and the American genus ''

Miacis ''Miacis'' is a genus of extinct carnivorous mammals that appeared in the late Paleocene and continued through the Eocene. The genus ''Miacis'' is not monophyletic but a diverse collection of species that belong to the stemgroup within the ...

''. There are two species of it, ''P. exilis'' (

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, 1876) and ''P. teilhardi'' (Mathis, 1987) - which were long believed to be only

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Sources

*''The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades'' edited by Kenneth David Rose and J. David Archibald *''Bibliography and Index of Geology'' by American Geological Institute, Geological Society of America *Flynn, J.J., 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"). pp. 110–123 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. *Christian Mathis, "Contribution à la connaissance des Mammifères de Robiac (Éocène supérieur): Creodonta et Carnivora" in ''Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle'' (Paris), 1985 *Christian Mathis, "Précisions sur le genre ''Paramiacis'' Mathis (Carnivora, Miacidae)" in ''Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle'' (Paris), 1987

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