Named By: | Edward Drinker Cope in 1892 |
Time Period: | Middle Miocene to Late Pliocene, 12-2 Ma |
Location: | North America, especially the United States and Mexico |
Size: | 1.5 meters long. Up to 43kg |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Many known specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Canidae | Borophaginae | |
Also known as: | | Cynogulo | Osteoborus | Hyaenognathus | Porthocyon | |
Borophagus ("gluttonous eater") is an extinct genus of the subfamily Borophaginae, a group of canids endemic to North America from the Middle Miocene epoch through the Late Pliocene epoch 12--2 Mya.