The wide ranging genus Eucyon Tedford & Qiu, 1996 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae, Canini) in the Mio-Pliocene of the Old World Author Rook, Lorenzo Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, via G. La Pira, I- 50121 Firenze (Italy) lorenzo. rook @ unifi. it rook@unifi.it text Geodiversitas 2009 31 4 723 741 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5381420 1638-9395 5381420 Eucyon zhoui Tedford & Qiu, 1996 TYPE LOCALITY . — Yushe Basin ( China ). AGE. — Early to Middle Pliocene. This species is known from the early to middle Pliocene of China only from the Yushe Basin. The inferred magnetostratigraphic correlation of the associated deposits which yielded specimens of the species ranges from the late Gilbert to early Gauss chrons (latest Ruscinian and early Villafranchian, MN 15-16; Tedford & Qiu 1996 ; Deng 2006 ). The species E. zhoui is larger in size than E. davisi , and differs from the North American species because of peculiar cranial proportions and because it shows more derived traits both in mandible and teeth morphology. According to Tedford & Qiu (1996) , E. zhoui could be more closely related to the Canis -group than to E. davisi .