| Microtomarctus Temporal range: | |
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| Replica of lower jaw at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | † Borophaginae |
| Tribe: | † Borophagini |
| Genus: | † Microtomarctus Wang et al., 1999 |
| Species: | †M. confertus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Microtomarctus confertus Matthew, 1918 | |
Microtomarctus is an extinct monospecific genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. It lived during the Early to Middle Miocene, [1] and existed for approximately 7 million years. Fossil specimens have been found in Nebraska, coastal southeast Texas, California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado. It was an intermediate-size canid, and more predaceous than earlier borophagines. [2]
Like some other borophagines it had powerful, bone-crushing jaws and teeth.[ citation needed ]
