Eucyon
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Canidae
Genus: †Eucyon
Tedford and Qiu (1996)

Eucyon is an extinct genus of small omnivorous fox-like canid endemic to North America during the Miocene living from 10.3—5.3 Ma and existed for approximately 5 million years. [1]

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Taxonomy [link]

Eucyon was named by Tedford and Qiu[2], and was subsequentely revised by Tedford et al. (2009)[3].

Morphology [link]

Two specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass. The first specimen was estimated to weigh 9.08 kg (20 lb). The second specimen was estimated to weigh 8.63 kg (19 lb).[4]

Fossil distribution [link]

The fossil remains are confined to the Rio Grande River, Texas to western Oregon and to northern Nebraska.

References [link]

  1. ^ https://paleobackup.nceas.ucsb.edu:8110/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=41213&is_real_user=1 Eucyon: Basic info.
  2. ^ R. H. Tedford and Z. Qiu. 1996. A new canid genus from the Pliocene of Yushe, Shanxi Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (Gujizhui Dongwu Xuebao) 34(1):27-40
  3. ^ Tedford, Richard; Xiaoming Wang, Beryl E. Taylor (2009). "Phylogenetic systematics of the North American fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325: 1–218. 
  4. ^ S. Legendre and C. Roth. 1988. Correlation of carnassial tooth size and body weight in recent carnivores (Mammalia). Historical Biology 1(1):85-98



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