Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Canidae Scientific name Enhydrocyon basilatus | Phylum Chordata Order Carnivora Subfamily †Hesperocyoninae Rank Species | |
Similar Cynarctoides lemur, Enhydrocyon, Osbornodon, Cynarctoides | ||
Enhydrocyon basilatus is an extinct species of bone crushing hesperocyonid dog that lived during the Late Oligocene to living from 24.8—20.6 Ma and existed for approximately 4.2 million years.
Contents
The dentition of E. basilatus' suggests this animal was a hypercarnivore or mesocarnivore.
Taxonomy
Enhydrocyon basilatus was named by Cope (1879). It was recombined as Hyaenocyon basilatus by Cope (1879); it was revalidated by Matthew (1907) and Wang (1994). It was assigned to Hyaenocyon by Cope (1879); and to Enhydrocyon by Cope (1879), Matthew (1907) and Wang (1994).
Morphology
Two specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.
References
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