Sunkahetanka
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†Sunkahetanka
Macdonald, 1963
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†S. geringensis
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| †Sunkahetanka geringensis (Barbour & Schultz, 1935)
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Sunkahetanka is an extinct genus of small bone crushing omnivorous mammal similar to a dog of the family Canidae) which inhabited North America during the Oligocene living from 30.8—26.3 Ma and existed for approximately 4.5 million years. [1]
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Taxonomy
Philotrox was named by Macdonald (1963).[2] It was synonymized subjectively with Enhydrocyon by Swisher (1982); it was revalidated by Carroll (1988), Wang (1994) and Wang and Tedford (1996). It was assigned to Canidae by Macdonald (1963), Carroll (1988), Wang (1994) and Wang and Tedford (1996).[3]
Morphology
Two specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass. The first specimen was estimated to weigh Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).. The second specimen was estimated to weigh Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)..[4]
References
- ↑ Paleobiology Database: Sunkahetanka Basic info.
- ↑ J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238
- ↑ X. Wang and R. H. Tedford. 1996. in Prothero and Emry
- ↑ S. Legendre and C. Roth. 1988. Correlation of carnassial tooth size and body weight in recent carnivores (Mammalia). Historical Biology 1(1):85-98
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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