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Cynarctoides harlowi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Canidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivora

Subfamily
  
†Borophaginae

Cynarctoides harlowi

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Cynarctoides harlowi is an extinct species of Cynarctoides, belonging to the subfamily Borophaginae and tribe Phlaocyonini, a canid which inhabited west central North America during the Late Oligocene to Miocene epoch living 24.8—20.6 mya and existed for approximately 4.2 million years.

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Taxonomy

Cynarctoides harlowi was originally named Pachycynodon harlowi by Loomis (1932). Its type locality is Van Tassel (Upper), which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in Wyoming. It was recombined as Nothocyon harlowi by Macdonald (1963); it was recombined as Cynarctoides harlowi by Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford et al. (1999).

Body mass

Two specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.

  • Specimen 1 was estimated to weigh 1.21 kg (2.7 lb).
  • Specimen 2 was estimated to weigh 1.28 kg (2.8 lb).
  • Fossil distribution

  • Van Tassel, Niobrara County, Wyoming ~23.0—5.3 Ma.
  • References

    Cynarctoides harlowi Wikipedia