Temnocyon
Temnocyon | |
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Skull of Temnocyon ferox | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | †Amphicyonidae |
Subfamily: | †Temnocyoninae |
Genus: | †Temnocyon Cope, 1878 |
Species | |
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Range of Temnocyonines based on fossil record |
Temnocyon is an extinct
The first fossils are recorded in North America at Logan Butte in the
Wildcat Ridge, Nebraska. These early temnocyonines attained the size of coyotes or small wolves (15–30 kg) and are identified by a uniquely specialized dentition. The last documented occurrences of temnocyonines are found in sediments in northwest Nebraska and southeastern Wyoming.[2]
References
- ^ Temnocyon at fossilworks
- ^ Hunt, Robert M Jr. (2004) "Global Climate and the Evolution of Large Mammalian Carnivores during the Later Cenozoic in North America" in Cenozoic Carnivores and Global Climate by Robert M. Hunt Jr.[1] Archived July 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine