{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}} {{Italic title}} {{automatic taxobox |name = ''Chailicyon'' |fossil_range = Middle to Late Eocene |display_parents=3 |taxon = Chailicyon |authority = Chow (1975) }}
'''''Chailicyon''''' is an extinct genus in the basal Carnivoramorph family Miacidae that lived in Asia during the Middle to Late Eocene.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = McKenna | first1 = M. C. | last2 = Bell | first2 = S. K. | year = 1997 | publisher = Columbia University Press | isbn = 978-0-231-11013-6 | pages = 631 | title = Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level }}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Chailicyon'' was named by Chow (1975). It was assigned to Miacidae by Carroll (1988).
==Sources== {{Reflist}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110719065139/http://museumu03.museumwww.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayTaxonomicNamesAndOpinions&reference_no=4783&display=opinions museum03.museumwww.naturekundmuseum-berlin.de] *''The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America'' by Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry {{ISBN|0-521-43387-8}} {{Miacoidea|C.|state=collapsed}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q3756923}}
Category:Miacids Category:Eocene carnivorans Category:Eocene mammals of Asia Category:Prehistoric placental genera
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