Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combination: Canis ferox
Full reference: W. E. Miller and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 1998. Late Tertiary Canids from Central Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 72(3):546-556
Belongs to Eucyon according to A. Valenciano et al. 2022
See also Miller and Carranza-Castaneda 1998, Tedford et al. 2009 and Wang et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Eucyon adoxus, Eucyon davisi, Eucyon debonisi, Eucyon intrepidus, Eucyon khoikhoi, Eucyon kuta, Eucyon marinae, Eucyon minor, Eucyon monticinensis, Eucyon odessanus, Eucyon skinneri, Eucyon wokari, Eucyon zhoui
Type specimen: IGM 1130, a partial skeleton (nearly complete skull with incomplete dentition (right and left P3-M2); left lower jaw with dentition (pl, p4-m2); atlas fragment; axis; partial 3rd cervical; t). Its type locality is Rancho El Ocote (Basal), which is in a Hemphillian fluvial claystone/sandstone in the Rancho Viejo Beds Formation of Mexico.
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (9: Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska collections)
• Pliocene of United States (1: Idaho)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (8), United States (5: Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.