Hesperocyoninae

Taxobox
fossil_range = late Eocene to middle Miocene


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image_caption = Skull of "Mesocyon coryphaeus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Canidae
subfamilia = †Hesperocyoninae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
* †"Cynodesmus"
* †"Caedocyon"
* †"Ectopocynus"
* †"Enhydrocyon"
* †"Hesperocyon"
* †"Mesocyon"
* †"Osbornodon"
* †"Paraenhydrocyon"
* †"Philotrox"
* †"Prohesperocyon"
* †"Sunkahetanka"

The subfamily Hesperocyoninae is an extinct group of canids that were endemic to North America, and lived from the Eocene through the Miocene.

References

*Wang, X. 1994. [http://hdl.handle.net/2246/829 Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora, Canidae)] . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 221:1-207.