Sunkahetanka

{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}}

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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Oligocene}}

| image = Sunkahetanka geringensis.jpeg

| image_caption = Sunkahetanka geringensis

| display_parents = 2

| genus = Sunkahetanka

| parent_authority = Macdonald, 1963

| species = geringensis

| authority = Barbour & Schultz, 1935

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Sunkahetanka is an extinct monospecific genus of the Hesperocyoninae subfamily of early canids native to North America. It lived during the Oligocene, 30.8—26.3 Ma, existing for approximately {{Mya|31-26|million years}}.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41243 ] Sunkahetanka In form, it was intermediate between the small Cynodesmus and the later Enhydrocyon, the first hypercarnivorous, "bone-cracking", canid.{{cite book |last1= Wang |first1= Xiaoming | last2= Tedford | first2= Richard H. | date= 2008 |title= Dogs, Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History |publisher= Columbia |page= 25 |isbn= 978-0-231-13528-3}}