Tephrocyon
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| Tephrocyon Temporal range:
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Borophaginae |
| Tribe: | †Borophagini |
| Genus: | †Tephrocyon Merriam, 1906 |
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Tephrocyon is an extinct genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. They lived during the Barstovian stage of the Middle Miocene 16.3—13.6 million years ago, existing for roughly 2.7 million years.[1] It is a rarely found genus,[citation needed] with fossil deposits only occurring in western Nebraska, Wyoming, eastern Oregon, New Mexico, and north Florida. It was an intermediate-sized canid, and more predatory than earlier borophagines.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Tephrocyon Taxonomy, Species
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- The Biology and Conservation of Wild Canids by David W. Macdonald and Claudio Sillero-Zubiri; page 42 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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