Sunkahetanka Macdonald 1963 (canid)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

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

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

See also Carroll 1988, Macdonald 1963, Swisher 1982, Wang 1994 and Wang and Tedford 1996

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

Subtaxa: Sunkahetanka geringensis

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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

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