Cynarctoides roii Macdonald 1963

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Alternative combinations: Cormocyon roii, Nothocyon roii

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

Belongs to Cynarctoides according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008

See also Macdonald 1963, Wang and Fremd 1994, Wang and Tedford 1992 and Wang et al. 1999

Sister taxa: Cynarctoides acridens, Cynarctoides emryi, Cynarctoides gawnae, Cynarctoides harlowi, Cynarctoides lemur, Cynarctoides luskensis, Cynarctoides whistleri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sharps (SDSM V-5354), which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Sharps Formation of South Dakota

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (9: Nebraska, South Dakota collections)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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