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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hesperocyoninae |
| Genus: | †Osbornodon Wang, 1994 |
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| †Osbornodon fricki | |
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Osbornodon ("Osborn's tooth") is an extinct genus of canid that were endemic to North America and which lived from the Oligocene to the Early Miocene, 33.9—15.97 Ma (AEO), existing for approximately 18 million years. [1] It was the last surviving genus of the hesperocyonine subfamily, the oldest subfamily of canids.[2] The genus is named for Henry Fairfield Osborn.[3]
- ^ Paleobiology Database: Osbornodon.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Wang2008was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H.; Antón, Mauricio (2010). "3. Diversity: Who is Who in the Dog Family". Dogs: their fossil relatives and evolutionary history. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13529-0.