Vulpavus

Vulpavus
Temporal range: early to middle Eocene
Skeleton of Vulpavus ovatus at the American Museum of Natural History
Life restoration of V. ovatus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Pan-Carnivora
Clade: Carnivoramorpha
Clade: Carnivoraformes
Genus: †Vulpavus
Marsh, 1871
Type species
†Vulpavus palustris
Marsh, 1871
Species
  • †V. australis (Matthew & Granger, 1915)
  • †V. canavus (Cope, 1881)
  • †V. completus (Matthew, 1909)
  • †V. farsonensis (Gunnell, 1998)
  • †V. palustris (Marsh, 1871)
  • †V. profectus (Matthew, 1909)
  • Subgenus: †Phlaodectes (Matthew, 1909)
    • †V. ovatus (Matthew, 1909)
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • V. australis:
    • Vulpavus asius (Gazin, 1952)
  • V. canavus:
    • Miacis brevirostris (Cope, 1881)
    • Miacis canavus (Cope, 1881)
    • Prodaphaenus canavus (Wortman, 1901)
    • Uintacyon brevirostris (Matthew, 1899)
    • Uintacyon canavus (Matthew, 1899)
  • V. ovatus:
    • Phlaodectes ovatus (Matthew, 1909)

Vulpavus ("ancestor of foxes") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

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