Phlaocyon latidens
| Phlaocyon latidens Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Borophaginae |
| Tribe: | †Phlaocyonini |
| Genus: | †Phlaocyon |
| Species: | †Phlaocyon latidens Cope 1881, p. 181 |
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Phlaocyon latidens is an extinct species of the genus Phlaocyon, belonging to the subfamily Borophaginae and tribe Phlaocyonini, a canid which inhabited northwestern North America from the Late Oligocene to Miocene living 33.3—20.6 mya and existed for approximately 12.7 million years.
Taxonomy
Phlaocyon latidens was originally named Galecynus latidens by Cope 1881. It was recombined as Cynodictis latidens by Scott 1898; it was recombined as Nothocyon latidens by Matthew 1899, Merriam (1906), Matthew 1907, Peterson 1907, Thorpe (1922), Hall and Martin (1930), Macdonald (1963) and Macdonald (1970); it was recombined as Cormocyon latidens by Wang and Fremd (1994); it was recombined as Phlaocyon latidens by Wang, Tedford & Taylor 1999.
Morphology
Body mass
Legendre & Roth 1988 estimated the body mass of two specimens to be 1.52–1.58 kilograms (3.4–3.5 lb).
Fossil distribution
- North Blue Basin Site, John Day Formation, Grant County, Oregon ~33.3—30.8 Ma.[1]
- Foree Site, John Day Formation, Wheeler County, Oregon ~30.8—20.6 Ma.
References
Notes
- ↑ "John Day Unit A (Oligocene of the United States)". Fossilworks. Retrieved September 2014. Check date values in:
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Sources
- Cope, E. D. (1881). "On the Nimravidae and Canidae of the Miocene period". Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Territories. 6: 165–181. Retrieved September 2014. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - Martin, L.D. 1989. Fossil history of the terrestrial carnivora. Pages 536 - 568 in J.L. Gittleman, editor. Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Vol. 1. Comstock Publishing Associates: Ithaca.
- Legendre, S.; Roth, C. (1988). "Correlation of carnassial tooth size and body weight in recent carnivores (Mammalia)". Historical Biology. 1 (1): 85–98. doi:10.1080/08912968809386468.
- Matthew, W. D. (1899). "A provisional classification of the fresh-water Tertiary of the West". Bulletin of the AMNH. 12. Retrieved September 2014. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - Matthew, W. D. (1907). "A lower Miocene fauna from South Dakota". Bulletin of the AMNH. 23: 169–219. Retrieved September 2014. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - Peterson, O. A. (1907). "The Miocene beds of western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming and their vertebrate faunae". Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 4: 21–72. Retrieved September 2013. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - Scott, W. B. (1898). "Notes on the Canidæ of the White River Oligocene". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 19 (3): 325–416. doi:10.2307/1005497. JSTOR 1005497.
- Wang, X.; Tedford, R. H.; Taylor, B. E. (1999). "Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae)". Bulletin of the AMNH. 243. Retrieved September 2014. Check date values in:
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