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Sunkahetanka

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Taxonomy
Sunkahetanka was named by Macdonald (1963). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Enhydrocyon by Swisher (1982).

It was assigned to Canidae by Macdonald (1963) and Carroll (1988); and to Hesperocyoninae by Wang (1994), Wang and Tedford (1996) and Wang et al. (2008).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Sunkahetanka Macdonald
1988Sunkahetanka Carroll
1994Sunkahetanka Wang p. 71
1996Sunkahetanka Wang and Tedford
2008Sunkahetanka Wang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
familyCanidae
subfamilyHesperocyoninaeTedford 1978
genusSunkahetanka

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.

G. †Sunkahetanka Macdonald 1963
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Sunkahetanka geringensis Barbour and Schultz 1935
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available