Sunkahetanka

Taxobox
name = "Sunkahetanka"
fossil_range = Early to Late Oligocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Canidae
subfamilia = †Hesperocyoninae
genus = †"Sunkahetanka"
genus_authority = Macdonald, 1963
species = †"S. geringensis"
binomial = †"Sunkahetanka geringensis"
binomial_authority = (Barbour & Schultz, 1935)

"Sunkahetanka" is an extinct genus of dog (family Canidae) which inhabited North America 29 Mya to 27 Mya, named by J. Reid Macdonald in 1963. Only a single species, "Sunkahetanka geringensis", is recognized.

References

*Wang, X. 1994. [http://hdl.handle.net/2246/829 Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora, Canidae)] . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 221:1-207.