Cormocyon

Cormocyon
Temporal range: Oligocene–Early Miocene
Cormocyon haydeni, American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Subfamily: †Borophaginae
Tribe: †Borophagini
Genus: †Cormocyon
Wang and Tedford, 1992
Species
  • C. haydeni
  • C. copei
Range of Cormocyon based on fossil distribution

Cormocyon is an extinct genus of borophagine canid native to North America. It lived from the Oligocene to the Early Miocene, 30.8—20.6 Mya, existing for about 10.2 million years.[1] It is regarded as a primitive, transitional member of the Borophagini tribe.[2]

References

  1. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Cormocyon Taxonomy, Species
  2. ^ Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008). Dogs, Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. Columbia. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3.
  • The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America By Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry ISBN 0-521-43387-8
  • Flynn, J.J., 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"). pp. 110–123 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2


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