Daphoenodon (Borocyon), 1910

Robert M. Hunt, Jr., 2009, Long-Legged Pursuit Carnivorans (Amphicyonidae, Daphoeninae) From The Early Miocene Of North America, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2009 (318), pp. 1-95 : 21

Daphoenodon (Borocyon) cf. B. robustum Peterson, 1910 Figure 9

REFERRED SPECIMENS: From sediments yielding an early Hemingfordian mammal

fauna that filled a sinkhole or fissure in the channel of the Suwanee River, northern Florida — Dixie–Levy Counties , Florida: (1) UF 95092 , KU 114592 (a cast: the specimen is retained by a private collector), palate with complete dentition, right and left I1–I3, C, P1–M2; (2) KU 114585, partial right P4; (3) KU 114584, partial left P4; (4) KU 114552, left m1; (5) KU 114492, left m1; (6) KU 114487, mandibular fragment with right m2– m3; (7) KU 114542, mandibular fragment with right p4; (8) KU 114543, mandibular fragment with right p3–p4, p2 broken; (9) KU 114479, 114532 , 114536 , 3 edentulous mandibles .

POSTCRANIALS: KU 113751, left humerus; KU 113765, 113756, 113769, 113750, 113768, 113753, 113774, 7 distal humeri; KU 113706, right radius; KU 113664, left proximal radius; KU 113784, left ulna; KU 113792, 113793, 113800, 113834, 116663, 5 proximal right ulnae; KU 113788, proximal left ulna; KU 113645, right femur; KU 113650, partial distal femur; KU 113736, right tibia; KU 113727, left distal tibia; KU 113722, left distal tibia; KU 113718, left astragalus; KU 113619, 113620, 2 left calcanea; KU 113608, 113609, 113610, 113613, 4 right calcanea.

Figures

Fig. 9. Reconstructed palate of Borocyon cf. B. robustum (cast, KU 114592) from sinkhole or fissure, Suwanee River, north Florida. Complete dentition includes I1–I3, C, P1–P4, M1–M2. Note absence of M3.