Osbornodon
| Osbornodon Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil skull cast of O. iamonensis, Florida Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hesperocyoninae |
| Genus: | †Osbornodon Wang, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| †Osbornodon fricki | |
| Species | |
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| Approximate range of Osbornodon based on fossil distribution | |
Osbornodon ("Osborn's tooth") is an extinct genus of canid that were endemic to North America and which lived from the Oligocene to the Early Miocene, 33.9—15.97 Ma (AEO), existing for approximately 18 million years. It was the last surviving genus of the hesperocyonine subfamily, the oldest subfamily of canids. The genus is named for Henry Fairfield Osborn.