| Miacis | |
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| skull of Miacis parvivorus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Carnivoramorpha |
| Clade: | Carnivoraformes |
| Genus: | †Miacis Cope, 1872 |
| Type species | |
| †Miacis parvivorus Cope, 1872
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| Synonyms | |
Miacis ("small point") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.[4][5][6]
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