†Oxetocyon Green 1954 (bone-crushing dog)
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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
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (7: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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