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Epicyon haydeni

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Illustration of an Epicyon haydeni

Epicyon haydeni

Unlike most dogs that belong to the Caninae family, they belong to a unique family of Borophagina dogs. These dogs crushed the bones of their prey.

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Skeletal mount of Epicyon haydeni (LACM 7756/154454) on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Epicyon haydeni

The word Epicyon means “more than a dog.” It was named by Joseph Leidy first as a subgenus Aelurodon haydeni. Later, in the 1980s, paleontologist Baskin named it Epicyon haydeni.

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