Sunkahetanka

<i>Sunkahetanka</i>

Sunkahetanka

Extinct genus of carnivores

Sunkahetanka is an extinct monospecific genus of the Hesperocyoninae subfamily of early canids native to North America. It lived during the Oligocene, 30.8—26.3 Ma, existing for approximately 5 million years.[1] In form, it was intermediate between the small Cynodesmus and the later Enhydrocyon, the first hypercarnivorous, "bone-cracking", canid.[2]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Binomial name ...

References

  1. [1]
    Sunkahetanka
  2. [2]
    Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008). Dogs, Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. Columbia. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3.


Stub icon

This article related to prehistoric animals from order Carnivora is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This canid article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Sunkahetanka, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.