Parapotos tedfordi is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by J. A. Baskin in 2003 and the only species of the genus Parapotos. The Paleobiology Database records a single fossil occurrence in San Jacinto County, Texas, and dates it from the Burdigalian to the Serravallian stages of the Miocene, between about 16.3 and 12.5 million years ago. Baskin's paper on new procyonines from the Gulf Coast and Nevada is titled as describing the first fossil record of the Potosini, the tribe that holds the living kinkajou, and the Wikipedia article on the family places Parapotos in the subfamily Potosinae with the kinkajou and the olingos.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Parapotos tedfordiOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Texas"
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1. Parapotos tedfordi (Paleobiology Database)
Taxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet, taken from Procyonidae
"diet": "frugivore, carnivore"
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Taxon record, classification order
"order": "Carnivora"
View the Source2. Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Extinct taxa
†P. tedfordi J.A. Baskin, 2003
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†P. tedfordi J.A. Baskin, 2003
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