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Epicyon

Synonyms: Epycyon

Wikipedia Abstract

Epicyon ("more than a dog") is a large, extinct, canid genus of the subfamily Borophaginae ("bone-crushing dogs"), native to North America. Epicyon existed for about 15 million years from the Hemingfordian age of the Early Miocene to the Hemphillian of the Late Miocene. Epicyon, which was about 5 feet long, had an estimated weight of 200-300 pounds. Epicyon had a massive head and powerful jaws, giving its skull a lion-like shape rather than that of a wolf. Epicyon was one of the last of the Borophaginae and shared its North American habitat with other canids:
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0