Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Full reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238

Parent taxon: Hesperocyoninae according to X. Wang 1994

Sister taxa: Caedocyon, Cynodesmus, Ectopocynus, Enhydrocyon, Hesperocyon, Mesocyon, Osbornodon, Paraenhydrocyon, Philotrox

Subtaxa: Sunkahetanka geringensis

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore