Phlaocyon latidens

Phlaocyon latidens Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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.

Fossil distribution

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

References

Sources

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• 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.
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• 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.