Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85:1-350
Parent taxon: Canidae according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008
See also Albright et al. 2019, Bjork 1970, BÅgner and Samuels 2022, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Korth et al. 2022, Tseng and Geisler 2016, Wang and Tedford 1992, Wang et al. 1999 and Wang et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Alopex, Amphicyon angustidens, Caninae, Chailicyon, Cubacyon, Cuon, Cynotherium, Dysodus, Hesperocyoninae, Hydrocyon, Icticyon, Leucocyon, Lupulella, Lupus, Lycaon, Lycorus, Megalotis, Otocyoninae, Palaeocyon, Plesiocyon, Schaeffia, Simenia, Synagodus, Thous, Vulpes
Subtaxa: Archaeocyon Borophagini Borophagus Otarocyon Oxetocyon Phlaocyonini Rhizocyon
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (3), United States (40: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene of United States (2: North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of Honduras (4), Mexico (11), United States (104: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Canada (18: Saskatchewan), El Salvador (1), Mexico (3), Panama (2), United States (502: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (46: Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (22: California, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Oligocene of United States (51: California, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Mexico (1), United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 814 collections including 1126 occurrences