Eucyon zhoui Tedford & Qiu, 1996

Rook, Lorenzo, 2009, The wide ranging genus Eucyon Tedford & Qiu, 1996 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae, Canini) in the Mio-Pliocene of the Old World, Geodiversitas 31 (4), pp. 723-741 : 728

Eucyon zhoui Tedford & Qiu, 1996

TYPE LOCALITY. — Yushe Basin ( China).

AGE. — Early to Middle Pliocene.

This species is known from the early to middle Pliocene of China only from the Yushe Basin. The inferred magnetostratigraphic correlation of the associated deposits which yielded specimens of the species ranges from the late Gilbert to early Gauss chrons (latest Ruscinian and early Villafranchian, MN 15-16; Tedford & Qiu 1996; Deng 2006). The species E. zhoui is larger in size than E. davisi , and differs from the North American species because of peculiar cranial proportions and because it shows more derived traits both in mandible and teeth morphology. According to Tedford & Qiu (1996), E. zhoui could be more closely related to the Canis -group than to E. davisi .