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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}}<br />
{{not to be confused with|Protocyon}}<br />
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| fossil_range = {{Geological range|Late Pliocene|Early Pleistocene|Late [[Pliocene]]-Early [[Pleistocene]]}}<br />
| taxon = Prototocyon<br />
| authority = Pohle, 1928<br />
| type_species = †'''''Prototocyon curvipalatus'''''<br />
| type_species_authority = Bose, 1880<br />
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*''Sivacyon''<br />
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*''P. curvipalatus''<br />
*''P. recki''<br />
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'''''Prototocyon''''' is an [[extinction|extinct]] [[genus]] of small [[omnivorous]] [[canid]] that lived during the [[Late Pliocene]] and [[Early Pleistocene]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dogs: their fossil relatives and evolutionary history |last1=Wang |first1=Xiaoming |author-link1=Xiaoming Wang (paleontologist) |first2=Richard H. |last2=Tedford |author-link2=Richard Tedford|first3=Mauricio |last3=Antón |author-link3=Mauricio Antón}}</ref> It is closely related to the living [[bat-eared fox]] (''Otocyon'').<br />
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==Taxonomy==<br />
''Prototocyon'' was named by Pohle (1928) and was assigned to Canidae by Carroll (1988).<ref>{{Cite book|first=R. L. |last=Carroll |date=1988 |title=Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution |publisher=W.H. Freeman and Company}}</ref> Old literature relates it to ''[[Bengal fox|Vulpes bengalensis]]'', but not more modern literature (e.g. McKenna and Bell.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=McKenna |first1=M. C. |first2=S. K. |last2=Bell |date=1997 |title=Classification of mammals above the species level |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite work|url=http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i1545-1410-795-1-1.pdf |title=Mammalian Species No. 795, pp. 1–5, 3 figs. Vulpes bengalensis. |first1=Matthew E. |last1=Gompper |first2=Abi Tamim |last2=Vanak |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621050643/http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/pdf/i1545-1410-795-1-1.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-21 |date=9 August 2006 |publisher=American Society of Mammalogists}}</ref> A 2013 study stated that the genus "is only doubtfully distinct from ''Otocyon"'' the genus of the living [[bat-eared fox]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hartstone-Rose |first1=Adam |last2=Kuhn |first2=Brian F. |last3=Nalla |first3=Shahed |last4=Werdelin |first4=Lars |last5=Berger |first5=Lee R. |date=February 2013 |title=A new species of fox from the Australopithecus sediba type locality, Malapa, South Africa |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0035919X.2012.748698 |journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa |language=en |volume=68 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1080/0035919X.2012.748698 |bibcode=2013TRSSA..68....1H |issn=0035-919X|url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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==Description==<br />
[[File:Otocyon megalotis - Etosha 2014.jpg|left|thumb|''Prototocyon'' is closely related and likely looked similar to the living [[bat-eared fox]]]]<br />
''Prototocyon'' was a small canine similar to the bat-eared fox in overall morphology and likely in habits as well. It differed from the modern bat-eared fox mainly in its more primitive dentition.<ref name=Werdelin>{{cite book |last1=Werdelin |first1=Lars |last2=Sanders |first2=William Joseph |title=Cenozoic Mammals of Africa |date=2010 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520257214 |page=612}}</ref><br />
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==Fossil distribution==<br />
Fossil remains of ''P. curvipalatus'' were recovered from the early Pleistocene Upper Siwaliks horizon of the [[Siwalik Hills]], [[India]] (Colbert 1935; Pilgrim 1932).<br />
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Fossils of ''P recki'' have been found in the [[Olduvai Gorge]] area of [[Tanzania]].<ref name=Werdelin /><br />
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==References==<br />
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