Canis orcutti
Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean)
Rancho La Brea Formation
Maricopa Tar Pits
Kern County, California, USA

49mm lower jaw section with two teeth of an extinct coyote subspecies from the famous Tar Pits of California.

Mammal, Canidae, carnivoran.

Canis orcutti (aka C. latrans orcutti) is an extinct subspecies of coyote best known from the Late Pleistocene of southern California. It was larger and more robust than the modern coyote (C. latrans) but not morphologically distinct enough to assign it to a separate species.

This is a cool carnivore display piece with nice color – a mandible section with the last premolar and first molar.