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Epicyon
Epicyon ("more than a dog") is a large, extinct, canid genus of the subfamily Borophaginae ("bone-crushing dogs"), native to North America. Epicyon existed for about from the Hemingfordian age of the Early Miocene to the Hemphillian of the Late Miocene.
Epicyon, which was about 5 feet long, had an estimated weight of 200-300 pounds. Epicyon had a massive head and powerful jaws, giving its skull a lion-like shape rather than that of a wolf.
Epicyon was one of the last of the Borophaginae and shared its North American habitat with other canids:
- Borophagus (mya)
- Epicyon from 20.6 to
- Carpocyon from 20.4 to
- Paratomarctus from 16.3 to
- Aelurodon from 15.97 to
- Canis lepophagus from 10.3 to
Canis lepophagus may be the ancestor to the wolf.