Philotrox
| Philotrox Temporal range:
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| Philotrox condoni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hesperocyoninae |
| Genus: | †Philotrox Merriam , 1906
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| Species: | †P. condoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Philotrox condoni Merriam, 1906
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Philotrox is an extinct
Ma, existing for approximately 5 million years.[1] In form, it was intermediate between the small Cynodesmus and the later Enhydrocyon, the first hypercarnivorous, "bone-cracking", canid.[2]
References
- ^ [1] Philotrox
- ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3.
- Wang, X. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora, Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 221:1-207.