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Taxonomy
Leptocyon matthewi was named by Tedford et al. (2009). Its type specimen is F:AM 25198, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bear Creek Quarry, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2009 | Leptocyon matthewi Tedford et al. p. 43 figs. 7, 17, 18A–F; appendices 3, 4 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Leptocyon matthewi Tedford et al. 2009
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. H. Tedford et al. 2009 | Differs from L. vafer in m1 significantly larger without any overlap of confidence interval (fig. 7); m1 with larger and taller crowned hypoconid, entoconid enlarged, coalescing with base of hypoconid to close talonid basin, hypoconulid shelf present; and m2 smaller relative to length of m1 (fig. 17) with stronger anterolabial cin- gulum that extends more posteriorly.
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