Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combination: Tephrocyon hippophagus
Full reference: W. D. Matthew and H. J. Cook. 1909. A Pliocene fauna from western Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26(27):361-414
Belongs to Tomarctus according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008
See also Matthew 1924, Matthew and Cook 1909, Olsen 1956, Skinner et al. 1977, VanderHoof and Gregory 1940 and Wang et al. 1999
Sister taxon: Tomarctus brevirostris
Type specimen: AMNH 13836, a mandible. Its type locality is Trojan Quarry, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Olcott Formation of Nebraska.
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (11: Saskatchewan collections), United States (25: California, Nebraska, New Mexico)
Total: 36 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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