Cynarctus

Cynarctus; Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Late Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Cynarctus Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Subfamily:	†Borophaginae
Tribe:	†Borophagini
Subtribe:	†Cynarctina
Genus:	†Cynarctus; Matthew, 1902
Type species
	†Cynarctus saxatilis;
Species
	C. crucidens, Barbour and Cook 1914; C. galushai, Wang et al. 1999; C. marylandica, Berry 1938; C. saxatilis, Matthew 1902; C. voorhiesi, Wang wt al. 1999; C. wangi, Jasinski & Wallace 2015;

Cynarctus is an extinct genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. It lived during the Middle to Late Miocene 16.0—10.3 mya, existing for approximately 5.7 million years .[1] Fossils have been uncovered in California, Maryland, western Nebraska, and Texas. It was likely an omnivore, and lacked the bone-cracking adaptations found in some later borophagines.[2]

References

Paleobiology Database: Cynartus
Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008). Dogs, Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. Columbia. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3.

Wang, X., R.H. Tedford, and B.E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 243:1-391.

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[1] Paleobiology Database: Cynartus

[2] Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008). Dogs, Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. Columbia. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3.