Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Canidae Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Carnivora Subfamily †Borophaginae | |
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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.
Fossil distribution
References
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