恐犬
外观
恐犬属![]() | |
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Borophagus cyonoides | |
科学分类 ![]() | |
界: | 动物界 Animalia |
门: | 脊索动物门 Chordata |
纲: | 哺乳纲 Mammalia |
目: | 食肉目 Carnivora |
科: | 犬科 Canidae |
亚科: | †恐犬亚科 Borophaginae |
属: | †恐犬属 Borophagus Cope, 1892 |
模式种 | |
†Borophagus diversidens | |
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恐犬(Borophagus)是恐犬亚科下已灭绝的动物,并且是该亚科的模式属。虽然恐犬并非恐犬亚科中最大的动物之一,但它有能咬碎骨头的能力,比较大的上犬更强。[2]
参考
[编辑]- ^ Wang, Xiaoming; Richard Tedford, Beryl Taylor. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1999-11-17, 243 [2007-07-08]. (原始内容 (PDF)存档于2007-03-20).
- ^ Alan Turner. National Geographic: Prehistoric Mammals. Washington, D.C.: Firecrest Books Ltd. 2004: 112–114. ISBN 0-7922-7134-3.
- Xiaoming Wang, "The Origin and Evolution of the Dog Family" Accessed 1/30/06.
其他资料
[编辑]- Russell Hunt, "Ecological Polarities Of the North American Family Canidae: A New Approach to Understanding Forty Million Years of Canid Evolution" (Accessed 1/30/06).
- Wang et al., "Phylogenetic Systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora:Canidae)." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 243, Nov. 17 1999. (PDF) (Accessed 4/11/06)
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