Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Full reference: P. O. McGrew. 1938. Dental morphology of the Procyonidae with a description of Cynarctoides, gen. nov. Geological Series, Field Museum of Natural History 6(22):323-339
Parent taxon: Phlaocyonini according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008
See also Carroll 1988, McGrew 1938, Wang et al. 1999 and Wang and Tedford 2008
Sister taxon: Phlaocyon
Subtaxa: Cynarctoides acridens Cynarctoides emryi Cynarctoides gawnae Cynarctoides harlowi Cynarctoides lemur Cynarctoides luskensis Cynarctoides roii Cynarctoides whistleri
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (45: California, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming collections)
• Harrisonian of United States (10: Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (2: South Dakota)
• Oligocene of United States (14: Florida, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)
Total: 71 collections including 74 occurrences
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