Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combination: Cynodesmus cooki
Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238
Belongs to Otarocyon according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008
See also Macdonald 1963 and Wang et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Otarocyon cuspidatus, Otarocyon macdonaldi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sharps (SDSM V-5359), which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Sharps Formation of South Dakota
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (4: South Dakota, Wyoming collections)
• Oligocene of United States (2: South Dakota)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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