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 rightmandibular ramus bearing m2 (see figures) reveals the existence ofan 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; bluffon west side of Turkey Creek, approximately 75 feet above stream, RaymondFarr 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 ofClarendon], 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 distant from theholotype in the same stratum as the holotype and on the same date by thesame collector (a staff member of the Department of Biology of MidwesternUniversity, Wichita Falls, Texas).
Fig. 1. Cynarctus fortidens, No. 11353 KU (Midwestern Univ. No. 2044).
Lateral view of holotype × 1, and occlusal view of check-teeth × 2.
Fig. 2. Cynarctus fortidens, No. 11354 KU (Midwestern Univ. No. 2045).
Lateral view of right lower mandible and m2 × 1 and oblique occlusal viewof m2 × 2.
Diagnosis.—Size large (see measurements); no accessory cusp betweenprotocone and paracone of fourth upper premolar; first upper molar longer thanbroad and lacking cingu