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.

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