Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combination: Vulpes shermanensis
Full reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1937. Additional Fauna of Edson Quarry of the Middle Pliocene of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 18(3):460-464
Belongs to Leptocyon according to C. W. Hibbard 1937
See also Gregory 1942, Harrison 1983 and Tedford and Qiu 1996
Sister taxa: Leptocyon delicatus, Leptocyon douglassi, Leptocyon gregorii, Leptocyon leidyi, Leptocyon matthewi, Leptocyon mollis, Leptocyon tejonensis, Leptocyon vafer, Leptocyon vulpinus
Type specimen: KUMVP 3608, a mandible ( right lower jaw, with alveoli of incisors, C, PI, P2, P3, P4 and base of M1). Its type locality is Edson, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in Kansas.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Leptocyon shermanensis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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