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Prototocyon; Fossil range: Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Mammalia;
Order:	Carnivora;
Suborder:	Caniformia;
Family:	Canidae;
Genus:	†Prototocyon; Pohle, 1928

Prototocyon or Sivacyon is an extinct genus of small omnivorous canid living during the Pleistocene.^[1]

[edit] Taxonomy

Prototocyon was named by Pohle (1928) and was assigned to Canidae by Carroll (1988).^[2] It has been included with study of Vulpes bengalensis by McKenna and Bell^[3]^[4]

[edit] Fossil distribution

The fossil remains were recovered from the early Pleistocene Upper Siwaliks horizon of the Siwalik Hills, India (Colbert 1935; Pilgrim 1932).

[edit] References

^ Dogs: their fossil relatives and evolutionary history, Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón
^ R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman and Company
^ McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York.
^ Mammalian Species No. 795, pp. 1–5, 3 figs. Vulpes bengalensis. By Matthew E. Gompper and Abi Tamim Vanak, Published 9 August 2006 by the American Society of Mammalogists

[0] Dogs: their fossil relatives and evolutionary history, Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón

[1] R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W.H. Freeman and Company

[2] McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York.

[3] Mammalian Species No. 795, pp. 1–5, 3 figs. Vulpes bengalensis. By Matthew E. Gompper and Abi Tamim Vanak, Published 9 August 2006 by the American Society of Mammalogists

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