Phlaocyon latidens

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.

Phlaocyon latidens
Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Subfamily: †Borophaginae
Tribe: †Phlaocyonini
Genus: †Phlaocyon
Species:
†P. latidens
Binomial name
†Phlaocyon latidens
Cope 1881, p. 181
Synonyms

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
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References

Notes
  1. "John Day Unit A (Oligocene of the United States)". Fossilworks. Retrieved September 20, 2014.

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 20, 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Matthew, W. D. (1899). "A provisional classification of the fresh-water Tertiary of the West". Bulletin of the AMNH. 12. hdl:2246/1534.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Matthew, W. D. (1907). "A lower Miocene fauna from South Dakota". Bulletin of the AMNH. 23: 169–219. hdl:2246/1483.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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 20, 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Wang, X.; Tedford, R. H.; Taylor, B. E. (1999). "Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae)". Bulletin of the AMNH. 243. hdl:2246/1588.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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