
Miacis ("small point") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.
Miacis ("small point") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.
==Description== Miacis was five-clawed, similar in size to a stoat (~30 cm, tail not included), weighed between 1 and 7 kg, and likely had highly reversible hind feet that assisted in its arboreal lifestyle, similar to those of a squirrel. It retained some primitive characteristics such as a low skull, a long slender body, a long tail, and short legs. Miacis retained 44 teeth, although some reductions in this number were apparently in progress and some of the teeth were reduced in size.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).