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| Prohesperocyon[1] Temporal range: Late Eocene,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | †Prohesperocyon Wang, 1994 |
| Species: | †P. wilsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Prohesperocyon wilsoni Gustafson, 1986
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Prohesperocyon ("before Hesperocyon") is an extinct genus of the first canid[2] endemic to North America appearing during the Late Eocene around 36.6 mya (AEO).[3]
- ^ Wang, Xiaoming (1994). "Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 221: 1–207. hdl:2246/829.
- ^ Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008). Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-231-13529-0.
- ^ Paleobiology Database Taxa 41236, Prohesperocyon
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