Everything about Oxetocyon totally explained
Oxetocyon is an early member of the subfamily
Borophaginae, an extinct subgroup of the family
Canidae, which includes living
dogs,
wolves, and
foxes. Only a single species,
O. cuspidatus, is known. Fossils of
Oxetocyon are rare and, as a result, the
genus is poorly known, and only the
teeth,
dentaries, and a fragmentary
skull have been reported. All specimens come from rocks assigned to the
Whitneyan and
Arikareean NALMAs (
Oligocene: ) of
Nebraska and
South Dakota.
The teeth of
Oxetocyon indicate a somewhat
omnivorous (
hypocarnivorous) diet, as is found in the living
Raccoon Dog, and suggest a potential relationship to the unusual borophagine
Otarocyon.
Oxetocyon is distinguished from
Otarocyon by its own set of
dental specializations for an omnivorous diet, particularly by the presence of a cleft that divides each upper
molar into front and back halves.
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