- Paraenhydrocyon
Taxobox
name="Paraenhydrocyon"
fossil_range=Early Oligocene -Early Miocene
regnum=Animalia
phylum=Chordata
class=Mammalia
ordo=Carnivora
familia=Canidae
subfamilia=†Hesperocyoninae
genus=†"Paraenhydrocyon "
genus_authority=Wang, 1994
type_species=†"Temnocyon wallovianus"
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*†"P. robustus
*†"P. josephi (syn. "Mesocyon hortulirosae ")
*†"P. wallovianus" (syn. "Temnocyon venator ")"Paraenhydrocyon" ("beside "
Enhydrocyon ") is a genus of the earliest-known doglike creatures, described byX. Wang in1994 . They were about the size of a coyote, and lived during theOligocene era (33.3 to 20.6 million years ago). The oldest fossil record is of "P. josephi" [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=41232&is_real_user=1] .References
*http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=41232&is_real_user=0
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