Eucyon
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| Eucyon Temporal range: Miocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | †Eucyon Tedford and Qiu (1996) |
Eucyon (Greek: true dog), is an extinct genus of small omnivorous fox-like canid endemic to North America during the Miocene living from 10.3—3.6 Ma and existed for approximately 6.7 million years. [1]
Taxonomy[edit]
Eucyon was named by Tedford and Qiu,[2] and was subsequently revised by Tedford et al. (2009).[3]
Fossil distribution[edit]
The fossil remains are confined to the Rio Grande, Texas, to western Oregon and to northern Nebraska.
It is thought that members of this genus reached the Asian continent about 6 million years ago, crossing the Beringian land bridge to Siberia and continuing on into Europe.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Eucyon, basic info
- ^ R. H. Tedford and Z. Qiu. 1996. A new canid genus from the Pliocene of Yushe, Shanxi Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (Gujizhui Dongwu Xuebao) 34(1):27-40
- ^ Tedford, Richard; Xiaoming Wang; Beryl E. Taylor (2009). "Phylogenetic systematics of the North American fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325: 1–218. doi:10.1206/574.1.
- ^ Perini, F. A.; Russo, C. A. M.; Schrago, C. G. (2010). "The evolution of South American endemic canids: a history of rapid diversification and morphological parallelism". Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (2): 311–322. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01901.x. PMID 20002250.
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