[3] Newer findings have proved the genus to be described as a large dog-like raccoon, a result from combining characteristics from Canidae with Procyonidae.

Findings confirmed that the premolars were more reduced, teeth were narrower, canine smaller, and that the jaw was relatively longer and more slender than species C.

[1] Collected by Erwin H. Barbour and Harold J. Cook, for the same Nebraska Geological Survey in 1913, as the species C. crucidens was found.

[4] A part of a right maxilla (Early Pliocene age) was located 75 feet above stream on the west side of Turkey Creek in Donely County, Texas.

This species differs from C. crucidens as it lacks an accessory cusp between the protocone and paracone of the fourth upper premolar.