Kingdom Animalia Suborder Caniformia Phylum Chordata Order Carnivores | Class Mammalia Family Canidae Rank Genus | |
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Similar Osbornodon, Enhydrocyon, Cynarctoides, Canis cedazoensis | ||
Theriodictis is an extinct genus of small hypercarnivorous fox-like canid endemic to South America during the Pleistocene, living from 1.2 Ma-11,000 years ago and existing for approximately 1.19 million years.
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Prey is thought to have included ungulate camelids (e.g. llama), cervids (e.g. Epieurycerus and Antifer), equids (e.g. Equus and Hippidion), Peccaries (e.g. Catagonus), giant rodents (e.g. Neochoerus), mesotherids (e.g. the burrowing Mesotherium), and giant cingulates (e.g. Eutatus, Propraopus and Pampatherium).
Taxonomy
Theriodictis was named by Mercerat, 1891.
Fossil distribution
The fossil remains are confined to Bolivia, southern Brazil, and Paraguay.
References
Theriodictis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA