Epicyon - Wikipedia
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. [2]
Ancient eight-foot long “bone-crushing” dog was the largest ever
2024年4月5日 · Heavier than an average gorilla and similar in length to a Komodo dragon, Hayden’s bone-crushing dog (Epicyon haydeni) was the largest dog species ever. The colossal canine existed for about 15 million years during the mid-late Miocene epoch, going extinct 5.3 million years ago.
Epicyon - Facts and Figures - ThoughtCo
2017年3月17日 · An in-depth profile of Epicyon, including this prehistoric dog's characteristics, behavior and habitat.
Epicyon haydeni – Florida Vertebrate Fossils - Florida Museum
Epicyon haydeni is a late-occuring borophagine dog that exemplifies one extreme end of the spectrum of borophagine diversity. The largest individuals of Epicyon haydeni were about the size of a grizzly bear, which makes this animal the largest canid ever known (Wang et al., 1999).
Largest wild canid ever - Guinness World Records
The biggest wild canid (member of the dog family) of all time was Epicyon haydeni, found across vast parts of North America from Montana and Nebraska to Florida and New Mexico between 7 and 10 million years ago.
Epicyon haydeni - A-Z Animals
2022年11月28日 · The Epicyon haydeni was a species of dog that lived from the Early Miocene to the Late Miocene. This was around 5 to 20 million years ago. It belonged to the sub-family of Borophaginae or “bone-crushing dogs” and weighed about 200 to 300 lbs. Fossils of this species of Epicyon were found in several regions all over North America. Epicyon haydeni.
Epicyon - Prehistoric Wildlife
2014年6月6日 · Although it had a skull more like that of a big cat, Epicyon was an early ancestor to canines. Epicyon is noted for having an incredibly powerful body that may have weighed up to one hundred and seventy kilograms (for Epicyon haydeni). Its unusually shaped skull meant that Epicyon had a very short muzzle ...
Epicyon - Wikiwand
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 15 million years from the Hemingfordian age of the Early Miocene, to the Hemphillian of the Late Miocene. [2]
Keith : Nebraska County Fossils : Science & Culture | Vertebrate ...
Epicyon was a massively built predator that specialized in crunching both flesh and bone of its prey, leaving little behind for those lower down on the food chain. The site which produced this skull also contained numerous bones of other animals...most had …
First bone-cracking dog coprolites provide new insight into ... - eLife
2018年5月22日 · The advanced genera in these two clades—Aelurodon in Aelurodontina, Epicyon and Borophagus in Borophagina—had independently acquired robust premolars for crushing hard prey items, although their loci of bone-crushing premolars are different .
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