Euoplocyon spissidens White 1947 (bone-crushing dog)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Alternative combinations: Aelurocyon spissidens, Enhydrocyon spissidens

Full reference: T. E. White. 1947. Additions to the Miocene fauna of north Florida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 99(4):497-515

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

See also Tedford and Frailey 1976, Wang et al. 1999 and White 1947

Sister taxon: Euoplocyon brachygnathus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Thomas Farm, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Alachua Formation of Florida

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Thomas Farm

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