Philotrox

Taxobox
name = "Philotrox"
fossil_range = Early to Late Oligocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Canidae
subfamilia = †Hesperocyoninae
genus = †"Philotrox"
genus_authority = Merriam, 1906
species = †"P. condoni"
binomial = †"Philotrox condoni"
binomial_authority = Merriam, 1906

"Philotrox" is an extinct genus of dog (family Canidae) which inhabited North America 29 Mya to 27 Mya, named by John C. Merriam in 1906. Only a single species, "Philotrox condoni", is recognized.

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.