About 280 catalogued teeth, jaws and ankle bones replace a two-tooth picture of “Miacis” latouri with a testable early carnivoraform dossier.
Represented range56–55.8 Ma
RegionsDormaal, Tienen Formation, Belgium
CladesCarnivoraformes · Dormaalocyon
Claim ledger
morphology · high
The earliest-Eocene Dormaal sample includes nearly complete deciduous and permanent dental representation plus catalogued astragali and a calcaneum; the new-genus assignment and basal carnivoraform position are morphology-matrix interpretations rather than crown membership or direct ancestry.