Urocyon progressus Stevens 1965 (gray fox)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Full reference: M. S. Stevens. 1965. A New Species of Urocyon from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 46(2):265-269

Belongs to Urocyon according to R. H. Tedford et al. 2009

See also Alroy 2002, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Wang et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Urocyon citrinus, Urocyon galushai, Urocyon littoralis, Urocyon minicephalus, Urocyon virginianus, Urocyon webbi

Type specimen: UMMP 37157, a partial skull (parietal)

Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Rexroad KU Locality 3 ( of Kansas)

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