Oxetocyon Green 1954 (bone-crushing dog)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Full reference: M. Green. 1954. A Cynarctine from the Upper Oligocene of South Dakota. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 57(2):218-220

Parent taxon: Borophaginae according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008

See also Green 1954, Lofgren et al. 2020, Munthe 1998 and Wang et al. 1999

Sister taxa: Archaeocyon, Borophagini, Borophagus, Otarocyon, Phlaocyonini, Rhizocyon

Subtaxa: Oxetocyon cuspidatus

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (7: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota collections)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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