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Title: A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus, From the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas

Author: E. Raymond Hall
Walter W. Dalquest

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 14, No. 10, pp. 135-138, 2 figs.

April 30, 1962

A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus,
From the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL and WALTER W. DALQUEST

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

LAWRENCE

1962

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

Volume 14, No. 10, pp. 135-138, 2 figs.
Published April 30, 1962

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY

JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER

TOPEKA, KANSAS

1962

29-2890

A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus,
From the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL and WALTER W. DALQUEST

A study of a right maxilla bearing P3-M1 and part of a right mandibular
ramus bearing m2 (see figures) reveals the existence of an unnamed
species of cynarctine carnivore. It may be known as:

=Cynarctus fortidens= new species

_Holotype._--Right maxilla bearing P3, P4, and M1, No. 11353
KU; bluff on west side of Turkey Creek, approximately 75
feet above stream, Raymond Farr Ranch, Center NE, NE, S. 48
Blk. C-3, E. L. and R. R. Ry. Co., Donley County, Texas
[approximately 6.5 miles north and 1 mile east of
Clarendon], Clarendon fauna, Early Pliocene age. Obtained by
W. W. Dalquest, on June 25, 1960.

_Referred material._--Fragment of right lower mandible
bearing m2, No. 11354 KU (see fig. 2), found about two feet
horizontally dist