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Cynarctoides roii

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Canidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivora

Subfamily
  
†Borophaginae

Cynarctoides roii

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Cynarctoides roii is an extinct species of Cynarctoides, belonging to the subfamily Borophaginae and tribe Phlaocyonini, a canid which inhabited west central North America from the Late Oligocene to Miocene living 30.8—20.6 mya and existed for approximately 10.2 million years.

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Taxonomy

Cynarctoides roii was named by Macdonald (1963). It was recombined as Cormocyon roii by Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford (1992) and Wang and Fremd (1994); it was recombined as Cynarctoides roii by Wang et al. (1999).

Body mass

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

  • Specimen 1 was estimated to weigh 0.644 kg (1.4 lb).
  • Specimen 2 was estimated to weigh 0.700 kg (1.5 lb).
  • Fossil distribution

  • Sharps Site, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota ~30.8—20.6 Ma.
  • Horse Creek, Banner County, Nebraska ~30.8—20.6 Ma.
  • References

    Cynarctoides roii Wikipedia