Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combinations: Hesperocyon gregorii, Nothocyon gregorii
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1907. A Lower Miocene fauna from South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23(9):169-219
Belongs to Leptocyon according to R. H. Tedford et al. 2009
See also Macdonald 1963, Macdonald 1970, Matthew 1907, Wang and Tedford 1992 and Wang et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Leptocyon delicatus, Leptocyon douglassi, Leptocyon leidyi, Leptocyon matthewi, Leptocyon mollis, Leptocyon tejonensis, Leptocyon vafer, Leptocyon vulpinus
Type specimen: Its type locality is AMNH Rosebud 19, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Harrison Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Harrisonian of United States (6: Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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