Enhydrocyon basilatus
| Enhydrocyon basilatus Temporal range: Late Oligocene | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hesperocyoninae |
| Genus: | †Enhydrocyon |
| Species: | †E. basilatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Enhydrocyon basilatus Cope, 1878 | |
Enhydrocyon basilatus is an extinct species of bone crushing hesperocyonid dog that lived during the Late Oligocene to living from 24.8—20.6 Ma and existed for approximately 4.2 million years. [1]
The dentition of E. basilatus' suggests this animal was a hypercarnivore or mesocarnivore.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Enhydrocyon basilatus was named by Cope (1879). It was recombined as Hyaenocyon basilatus by Cope (1879); it was revalidated by Matthew (1907) and Wang (1994). It was assigned to Hyaenocyon by Cope (1879); and to Enhydrocyon by Cope (1879), Matthew (1907) and Wang (1994).[4][5]
Morphology
Two specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.[6]
- 35.8 kg (79 lb)
- 31.8 kg (70 lb).
References
- ↑ Paleobiology Database: Enhydrocyon basilatus, Basic info.
- ↑ R. M. Nowak. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World. Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press (edited volume) II
- ↑ Q. Ji, Z.-X. Luo, C.-X. J.R. Yuan Wible, J.-P. Zhang, and J.A. Georgi. 2002. The earliest known eutherian mammal. Nature 416:816-822
- ↑ W. D. Matthew. 1907. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23(9)
- ↑ X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207
- ↑ S. Legendre and C. Roth. 1988. Correlation of carnassial tooth size and body weight in recent carnivores (Mammalia). Historical Biology 1(1):85-98
- Wang, X. (1994). "Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora, Canidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 221: 1–207. hdl:2246/829.
- Xiaoming Wang
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