Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combinations: Enhydrocyon geringensis, Mesocyon geringensis
Full reference: E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz. 1935. A new Miocene dog, Mesocyon geringensis, sp. nov. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 43(1):407-418
Belongs to Sunkahetanka according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008
See also Barbour and Schultz 1935, Macdonald 1963, Macdonald 1970, Swisher 1982, Tedford et al. 1985, Wang 1994 and Wang and Tedford 1996
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UNSM 1092, a skeleton (complete skull and mandible plus postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is Redington Gap West (Basal Siltstone), which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in the Brule Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (2: Nebraska, South Dakota collections)
• Oligocene of United States (3: South Dakota)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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