Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Alternative combinations: Canis brachypus, Cynodesmus brachypus

Belongs to Osbornodon according to X. Wang 1994

Sister taxa: Osbornodon fricki, Osbornodon iamonensis, Osbornodon renjiei, Osbornodon scitulus, Osbornodon sesnoni, Osbornodon wangi

Type specimen: AMNH 8140, a partial skeleton (skull and lower jaws plus most of the postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is Uva Breaks, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the "Marsland" Beds Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore