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Phylogenetic Systematics Of The Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae), Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Beryl E. Taylor

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

The subfamily Borophaginae (Canidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) was erected by G. G. Simpson in 1945 to include seven genera of large, bonecrushing ‘‘dogs’’ in the late Tertiary of the northern continents. As a monophyletic group of canids, the Borophaginae is now known to be much more diverse than was originally envisioned but is confined within the middle to late Tertiary of North America. Fossil records of the borophagines are well represented and members of this prolific clade are often the most common predators in the late Tertiary deposits. Largely due to the Childs Frick Collection at the American Museum of Natural …