Procynodictis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}}

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|fossil_range = {{fossil_range|50.5|39.7}} early to middle Eocene

|image = Procynodictis vulpiceps.jpg

|image_caption = lower jaw of Procynodictis vulpiceps

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|taxon = Procynodictis

|authority = Wortman & Matthew, 1899

|type_species = †Procynodictis vulpiceps

|type_species_authority = Wortman & Matthew, 1899

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• †P. progressus {{small|(Stock, 1935)}}{{cite journal | doi=10.1073/pnas.21.2.119 | title=Plesiomiacis, a New Creodont from the Sespe Upper Eocene, California | year=1935 | last1=Stock | first1=Chester | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=21 | issue=2 | pages=119–122 | pmid=16587935 | pmc=1076543 | bibcode=1935PNAS...21..119S | doi-access=free }}
• †P. vulpiceps {{small|(Wortman & Matthew, 1899)}}J. L. Wortman and W. D. Matthew (1899.) [https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/1535//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B012a06.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y "The ancestry of certain members of the Canidae, the Viverridae, and Procyonidae."] Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 12(6):109-138

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|Plesiomiacis {{small|(Simpson, 1945)}}{{cite journal |last=Simpson |first=George Gaylord |year=1945 |title=The principles of classification and a classification of mammals |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=85 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1104 |pages=350 |hdl=2246/1104}}

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|Plesiomiacis progressus {{small|(Simpson, 1945)}}

|Viverravus progressus {{small|(Stock, 1935)}}

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Procynodictis ("before Cynodictis") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry (1996.) [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/terrestrial-eoceneoligocene-transition-in-north-america/54F6C19C81DCF5471978234D82FB1AD1 The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America] {{isbn|978-0-521-43387-7}}{{cite book |last1=McKenna |first1=Malcolm C. |last2=Bell |first2=Susan K. |title=Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLYifwU8bqQC&pg=PP9 |year=1997 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-231-11012-9}}J. J. Flynn (1998.) "Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea")." In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=I-RgojcDyWYC "Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals."] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. {{ISBN|9780521355193}}