Referral of Miacis jepseni Guthrie to Oödectes Wortman, and an assessment of phylogenetic relationships among early Eocene Miacidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)

The same morphology analysis samples Uintacyon and recovers a limited Uintacyon–Vassacyon relationship while emphasizing weak resolution among early “miacids”; the result does not identify Uintacyon as a crown carnivoran ancestor.

An early-miaced cladistic analysis samples Vulpavus and supports limited relationships among named genera while leaving broader “Miacidae” structure poorly resolved; Vulpavus is therefore a sampled fossil branch, not a direct carnivoran ancestor.