Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combinations: Canis brachypus, Cynodesmus brachypus
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1881. On the Canidae of the Loup Fork Epoch. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 6(2):387-390
Belongs to Osbornodon according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008
See also Cope 1881, Cope and Matthew 1915, Hay 1902, Matthew 1907, Wang 1994 and Wang and Tedford 1996
Sister taxa: Osbornodon fricki, Osbornodon iamonensis, Osbornodon renjiei, Osbornodon scitulus, Osbornodon sesnoni, Osbornodon wangi
Type specimen: AMNH 8140, a partial skeleton (skull and lower jaws plus most of the postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is Uva Breaks, which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in the Marsland Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Harrisonian of United States (1: Wyoming collection)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Wyoming)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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