Prolimnocyon

Prolimnocyon
Temporal range: late Paleocene to middle Eocene
lower jaw of Prolimnocyon antiquus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Family: †Hyaenodontidae
Subfamily: †Limnocyoninae
Genus: †Prolimnocyon
Matthew, 1915
Type species
†Prolimnocyon atavus
Matthew, 1915
Species
  • †P. antiquus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
  • †P. atavus (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
  • †P. chowi (Meng, 1998)
  • †P. eerius (Gingerich, 1989)
  • †P. haematus (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • P. antiquus:
    • Prolimnocyon elisabethae (Gazin, 1952)

Prolimnocyon ("before Limnocyon") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonid hyaenodonts that lived in Asia and North America during the late Paleocene to middle Eocene. Prolimnocyon chowi is the earliest known member of the hyaenodontid family Limnocyonidae.