Epicyon

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Epicyon Fossil range: middle to late Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Subfamily: †Borophaginae Genus: †Epicyon Leidy, 1858
Type species
†Epicyon haydeni
Species[1]
†E. aelurodontoides †E. haydeni †E. saevus

Epicyon ("near dog") is an extinct canid genus of the subfamily Borophaginae ("bone-crushing dogs"), native to Miocene North America. This genus contained several species of the largest canids to have ever lived, such as Epicyon haydeni, which stood 37 inches (0.9 meters) tall at the shoulder.

[edit] See also

• Borophaginae

[edit] References

• Alan Turner, "National Geographic: Prehistoric Mammals" (Washington, D.C.: Firecrest Books Ltd., 2004), pp. 112-114. ISBN 0-7922-7134-3

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