Theriodictis | |
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Fossil skull in the Museo Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Subfamily: | Caninae |
Tribe: | Canini |
Genus: | †Theriodictis Mercerat, 1891 |
Species | |
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Theriodictis is an extinct genus of hypercarnivorous wolf-like canid endemic to South America during the Pleistocene, living from 1.2 Ma- 500,000 years ago and existing for approximately 0.7 million years. [1][2][3]