Daphoenodon (Daphoenodon) Peterson, 1909

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 : 14

Daphoenodon (Daphoenodon) Peterson, 1909

Amphicyon superbus Peterson, 1907 .

Daphoenodon superbus Peterson, 1909 .

ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek dauoinóz,,

‘‘blood-reeking’’, and odoÚz, ‘‘tooth’’, in reference to its carnivorous habit.

This is the sister subgenus of Daphoenodon (Borocyon) . D. (D.) superbus remains the best known species of the subgenus, represented by the holotype, a nearly complete skeleton of an adult female (CM 1589), and other individuals from the carnivore dens (Carnegie Quarry 3), Agate National Monument, Nebraska ( Peterson, 1910; Hunt et al., 1983).