Epicyon

Description

• Borophagus
• Carpocyon from 20.4 to
• Paratomarctus from 16.3 to
• Aelurodon from 15.97 to
• Canis lepophagus from 10.3 to

  Taxonomy

Fossil range

Species

• Epicyon aelurodontoides existed for. It was named by X. Wang and others in 1999. It was found south of the Young Brothers Ranch, Kansas.
• Epicyon haydeni existed for It is synonymous with Aelurodon aphobus, Osteoborus ricardoensis, Osteoborus validus, Tephrocyon mortifer) was named by Joseph Leidy as a subgenus. It was recombined as Aelurodon haydeni by Scott and Osborn in 1890. Further study by Matthew in 1899, Matthew and Gidley in 1904, VanderHoof and Gregory in 1940, McGrew in 1944, Bennett in 1979, and Becker. It again was recombined as Epicyon haydeni by Baskin in 1980, Voorhies in 1990,, Baskin, Wang et al. in 1999. The largest known specimen weighed an estimated.
• Epicyon saevus existed for. It is synonymous with Aelurodon inflatus and was named by Joseph Leidy in 1858 or 1859. In the late 1880s-early 1900s,pe, Scott, Matthew, Cope and Matthew, Troxell recombined the animal as Aelurodon saevus. It was recombined as Epicyon saevus by Baskin in 1980, Munthe in 1989, Voorhies in 1990, and Wang et al. 1999.

  Paleoecology

General references

• Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón, Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History, New York : Columbia University Press, 2008;