Epicyon

Taxobox
name = "Epicyon"
fossil_range = middle to late Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Canidae
subfamilia = †Borophaginae
genus = †"Epicyon"
genus_authority = Leidy, 1858
type_species = †"Epicyon haydeni"
subdivision_ranks = Species [cite journal| last = Wang| first = Xiaoming| coauthors = Richard Tedford, Beryl Taylor| title = Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae| journal = Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume = 243| date = 1999-11-17| url = http://www.nhm.org/expeditions/rrc/wang/documents/Wangetal1999borophaginemonographpart1.pdf| accessdate = 2007-07-08 ]
subdivision =
* †"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.

ee also

*Borophaginae

References

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