Phlaocyon latidens

Phlaocyon latidens; Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Subfamily:	†Borophaginae
Tribe:	†Phlaocyonini
Genus:	†Phlaocyon
Species:	†P. latidens
Binomial name
	†Phlaocyon latidens; Cope 1881, p. 181
Synonyms
	Galecynus latidens; Cope 1881, p. 181; Cynodictis latidens; Scott 1898, p. 364;

Phlaocyon latidens is an extinct species of the genus Phlaocyon, belonging to the subfamily Borophaginae and tribe Phlaocyonini, a canid which inhabited northwestern North America from the Late Oligocene to Miocene living 33.3–20.6 mya and existed for approximately 12.7 million years.

Taxonomy[]

Phlaocyon latidens was originally named Galecynus latidens by Cope 1881. It was recombined as Cynodictis latidens by Scott 1898; it was recombined as Nothocyon latidens by Matthew 1899, Merriam (1906), Matthew 1907, Peterson 1907, Thorpe (1922), Hall and Martin (1930), Macdonald (1963) and Macdonald (1970); it was recombined as Cormocyon latidens by Wang and Fremd (1994); it was recombined as Phlaocyon latidens by Wang, Tedford & Taylor 1999.

Morphology[]

Body mass[]

Legendre & Roth 1988 estimated the body mass of two specimens to be 1.52–1.58 kilograms (3.4–3.5 lb).

Fossil distribution[]

North Blue Basin Site, John Day Formation, Grant County, Oregon ~33.3–30.8 Ma.^[1]
Foree Site, John Day Formation, Wheeler County, Oregon ~30.8–20.6 Ma.

References[]

Notes[]

^ "John Day Unit A (Oligocene of the United States)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Sources[]

Cope, E. D. (1881). "On the Nimravidae and Canidae of the Miocene period". Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Territories. 6: 165–181. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
Martin, L.D. 1989. Fossil history of the terrestrial carnivora. Pages 536 - 568 in J.L. Gittleman, editor. Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Vol. 1. Comstock Publishing Associates: Ithaca.
Legendre, S.; Roth, C. (1988). "Correlation of carnassial tooth size and body weight in recent carnivores (Mammalia)". Historical Biology. 1 (1): 85–98. doi:10.1080/08912968809386468.
Matthew, W. D. (1899). "A provisional classification of the fresh-water Tertiary of the West". Bulletin of the AMNH. 12. hdl:2246/1534.
Matthew, W. D. (1907). "A lower Miocene fauna from South Dakota". Bulletin of the AMNH. 23: 169–219. hdl:2246/1483.
Peterson, O. A. (1907). "The Miocene beds of western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming and their vertebrate faunae". Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 4: 21–72. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
Scott, W. B. (1898). "Notes on the Canidæ of the White River Oligocene". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 19 (3): 325–416. doi:10.2307/1005497. JSTOR 1005497.
Wang, X.; Tedford, R. H.; Taylor, B. E. (1999). "Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae)". Bulletin of the AMNH. 243. hdl:2246/1588.

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[1] "John Day Unit A (Oligocene of the United States)". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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