Prohesperocyon Wang 1994 (canid)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Full reference: X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207

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

See also Munthe 1998, Polly et al. 2006, Wang 1994 and Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin 2005

Sister taxa: Caedocyon, Cynodesmus, Ectopocynus, Enhydrocyon, Hesperocyon, Mesocyon, Osbornodon, Paraenhydrocyon, Philotrox, Sunkahetanka

Subtaxa: Prohesperocyon wilsoni

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Airstrip (TMM 40504) (Eocene of Texas)

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