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Euoplocyon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Subfamily:	†Borophaginae
Tribe:	†Borophagini
Genus:	†Euoplocyon Matthew, 1924
Type species
† Euoplocyon praedator Douglass, 1903
Species
† Euoplocyon brachygnathus † Euoplocyon spissiden

Euoplocyon is an extinct genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. It lived during the Early to Middle Miocene, 20.6—13.6 Mya, existing for about 7 million years. A member of the Borophagini tribe, it was an intermediate-sized canid, with specialisations towards a heavily meat-based diet.

Species

• E. brachygnathus (syn. Aelurodon brachygnathus, E. praedator) Douglass 1903, discovered at the Flint Creek Beds, a Miocene terrestrial horizon in Montana.
• E. spissidens (syn. Aelurocyon spissidens, Enhydrocyon spissidens) White 1947, discovered at the Alachua Formation, Alachua County, Florida.

References

1. W. D. Matthew. 1924. Third contribution to the Snake Creek Fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 50:59-210
2. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Euoplocyon
3. X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392
4. Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008). Dogs, Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. Columbia. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3.

• Flynn, J.J., 1998. Early Cenozoic Carnivora ("Miacoidea"). pp. 110–123 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2

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