Cynarctoides is an extinct genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids endemic to North America. It lived from the Early Oligocene to the Middle Miocene, 33.3—13.6 Mya, existing for approximately . Seven species are currently recognised, all of which are estimated to have weighed no more than .
Cynarctoides is an extinct genus of the Borophaginae subfamily of canids endemic to North America. It lived from the Early Oligocene to the Middle Miocene, 33.3—13.6 Mya, existing for approximately . Seven species are currently recognised, all of which are estimated to have weighed no more than .
== Description == The genus had an unusual dentition that implies an omnivorous, or possibly even herbivorous, diet. Its Hunter-Schreger bands were undulating, indicating it was not adapted for durophagy.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).