Enhydrocyon

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Enhydrocyon Fossil range: Early Oligocene to Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Subfamily: †Hesperocyoninae Genus: †Enhydrocyon Cope, 1879
Type species
†Enhydrocyon stenocephalus
Species
†E. basilatus †E. crassidens †E. pahinsintewakpa †E. sectorius (nomen vanum) †E. stenocephalus

Enhydrocyon is an extinct genus of dog (family Canidae) which inhabited North America 29 Mya to 21 Mya, described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1879.

[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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