Sunkahetanka
Extinct genus of carnivores
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Sunkahetanka is an extinct monospecific genus of the Hesperocyoninae subfamily of early canids native to North America. It lived during the Oligocene, 30.8—26.3 Ma, existing for approximately 5 million years.[1] In form, it was intermediate between the small Cynodesmus and the later Enhydrocyon, the first hypercarnivorous, "bone-cracking", canid.[2]
| Sunkahetanka Temporal range: | |
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| Sunkahetanka geringensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hesperocyoninae |
| Genus: | †Sunkahetanka Macdonald, 1963 |
| Species: | †S. geringensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Sunkahetanka geringensis Barbour & Schultz, 1935 | |
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