Ferrucyon
Name: Ferrucyon.
Phonetic: Fer-ru-cy-on.
Named By: Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, Francisco Juan
Prevosti,
Saverio Bartolini Lucenti, Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros &
Ana Luisa Carreño - 2020.
Synonyms: Cerdocyon avius.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora,
Canidae, Caninae, Vulpini.
Species: F. avius (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: About 80 centimetres long.
Known locations: North America.
Time period: Pliocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Originally
thought to represent an extinct species of Cerdocyon
(crab eating
fox), C. avius was moved to its own genus and
named Ferrucyon in
2020. Ferrucyon is also thought to be more of a
vulpine type of fox.
Further reading
- The Pliocene canid
Cerdocyon avius was not the type of fox that we
thought. - Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (2): e1774889. - Damián
Ruiz-Ramoni, Francisco Juan Prevosti, Saverio Bartolini Lucenti,
Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros & Ana Luisa Carreño -
2020.
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