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Prototocyon or Sivacyon is an extinct genus of small omnivorous canid living during the Late Eocene.
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Taxonomy
Prototocyon was named by Pohle (1928) and was assigned to Canidae by Carroll (1988). Old literature relates it to Vulpes bengalensis, but not more modern literature (e.g. McKenna and Bell.) Tedford et al. 2009 suggest that Prototocyon and Otocyon form a clade.
Fossil distribution
The fossil remains were recovered from the early Pleistocene Upper Siwaliks horizon of the Siwalik Hills, India (Colbert 1935; Pilgrim 1932).
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