Protoprocyon savagei is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by Oscar Linares in 1981 in a paper on three new fossil procyonid carnivores from the Miocene of North and South America. The Paleobiology Database records one fossil occurrence, in Brown County, Nebraska, and dates it from the Serravallian to the Zanclean stages, between about 12.5 and 4.7 million years ago. J. A. Baskin described the same animal in 1982 as Lichnocyon phoenicus, a name the database treats as a synonym. The Wikipedia article on the family notes the same synonymy for the genus.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
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Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Protoprocyon savageiOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Nebraska"
Sources
1. Protoprocyon savagei (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. savagei Linares, 1981 [=Lichnocyon savagei J.A. Baskin, 1982]
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†P. savagei Linares, 1981 [=Lichnocyon savagei J.A. Baskin, 1982]
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