Prohesperocyon wilsoni Gustafson 1986 (canid)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Alternative combination: Hesperocyon wilsoni

Full reference: E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66

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

See also Gustafson 1986, Wang 1994 and Wang and Tedford 1996

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TMM 40504-126, a partial skull (partial skull and mandible). Its type locality is Airstrip (TMM 40504), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Capote Mountain Tuff Formation of Texas.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Airstrip (TMM 40504)

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