Early Eocene Leptictida, Pantolesta, Creodonta, Carnivora, and Mesonychidae (Mammalia) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Eberle, Jaelyn J, McKenna, Malcolm C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2002
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Eureka; Eureka Sound; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-001; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e02-001

We describe the leptictid Prodiacodon; the pantolestids Palaeosinopa sp.nov., cf. Palaeosinopa, and Pantolestidae, gen. et sp. indet.; the creodonts Palaeonictis and Prolimnocyon; the carnivorans Viverravus, cf. Vulpavus, and Miacis; and the mesonychid Pachyaena from early Eocene (i.e., Wasatchian)...