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Microtomarctus

Microtomarctus is an extinct monospecific genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids native to North America. It lived during the Early to Middle Miocene, and existed for approximately . 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.

Like some other borophagines it had powerful, bone-crushing jaws and teeth.

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