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