Sunkahetanka
Extinct genus of carnivores
Sunkahetanka Temporal range: Oligocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Subfamily: | †Hesperocyoninae |
Genus: | †Sunkahetanka Macdonald, 1963 |
Species: | †S. geringensis |
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†Sunkahetanka geringensis Barbour & Schultz, 1935 |
Sunkahetanka is an extinct monospecific genus of the Hesperocyoninae subfamily of early canids native to North America. It lived during the Oligocene, 30.8—26.3 Ma, existing for approximately 5 million years.[1] In form, it was intermediate between the small Cynodesmus and the later Enhydrocyon, the first hypercarnivorous, "bone-cracking", canid.[2]
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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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Suborder: Caniformia
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