Cormocyon
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Cormocyon
Cormocyon leptodus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivoramorpha Family: †Borophaginae Genus: †Cormocyon (Wang and Tedford, 1992)
Type species
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Species
†C. haydeni †C. copei

Cormocyon is an extinct genus of Borophaginae. It contains two species: Cormocyon copei and Cormocyon haydeni. It was first named by Wang and Tedford in 1992, who described it as a primitive borophagini genus after comparing it to Nothocyon geismarianus.

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