Ectopocynus

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Ectopocynus Fossil range: Early Oligocene to Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Subfamily: †Hesperocyoninae Genus: †Ectopocynus Wang, 1994
Type species
†Ectopocynus simplicidens
Species
†E. antiquus †E. intermedius †E. simplicidens

Ectopocynus ("strange dog") is an extinct genus of dog (family Canidae) which inhabited North America 32 Mya to 18 Mya, described by Xiaoming Wang in 1994.

[edit] References

• Wang, X. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora, Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 221:1-207.

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