Amphicyonidae is an extinct family of terrestrial carnivorans belonging to the suborder Caniformia. They first appeared in North America in the middle...
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Amphicyon (category Amphicyonidae)
Amphicyon is an extinct genus of large carnivorans belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (known colloquially as "bear-dogs"), subfamily Amphicyoninae, from the...
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has had slight arrangements. In the past it was thought the extinct Amphicyonidae were stem-bears based on morphological analysis of the ear region, though...
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Arctoids are caniforms, along with dogs (canids) and extinct bear dogs (Amphicyonidae). The earliest caniforms were superficially similar to martens, which...
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carnivorans) Genus: †Lycophocyon Superfamily: Amphicyonoidea Family: †Amphicyonidae (bear-dogs) Infraorder: Cynoidea Superfamily: Canoidea Family: Canidae...
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Some paleontologists argue that caniforms like Amphicyonidae – "bear dogs" - responded to the cat gap by evolving to become more cat-like, to fill the...
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Myacyon (category Amphicyonidae)
extinct genus of large sized carnivoran mammals, belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (“bear dogs”), that lived in Africa during the Miocene epoch. Due to...
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mammals known as Ursida, along with the extinct bear dogs of the family Amphicyonidae. Below is the cladogram based on McKenna and Bell (1997) classification:[clarification...
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Thomas Farm Site (section Amphicyonidae)
The Thomas Farm site is an Early Miocene, Hemingfordian assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in Gilchrist County, northern Florida. The Thomas Farm...
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Bonisicyon (category Amphicyonidae)
is an extinct genus of carnivoran mammals, belonging to the family Amphicyonidae ("bear dogs"). It is the last-surviving member of its family, living...
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Delotrochanter (category Amphicyonidae)
an extinct genus of large-sized carnivoran mammals, belonging to the Amphicyonidae ("bear dogs"), that lived in the Great Plains of North America during...
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Namibiocyon (category Amphicyonidae)
is an extinct genus of carnivoran mammals, belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (“bear dogs”), that lived in Namibia during the Early Miocene epoch...
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Magericyon (category Amphicyonidae)
attributed to the genus Amphicyon. Magericyon is part of the family of amphicyonidae, a group of very common carnivores ranging from the Eocene to the Miocene...
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Amphicyoninae (category Amphicyonidae)
to Canidae by Matthew (1902), to Ursidae by Ginsburg (1977) and to Amphicyonidae by Hunt (1998). Genera include: Amphicyon, found in both Europe and...
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cognitus are a true carnivorans, as they are classified in the family Amphicyonidae within Caniformia. The divergence of carnivorans from miacids is now...
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Afrocyon (category Miocene Amphicyonidae)
carnivorous bone-crushing mammals known as bear dogs, of the family Amphicyonidae endemic to Africa during the Miocene to Pliocene living from 11.6 to...
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Gustafsonia (category Amphicyonidae)
Gustafsonia is an extinct genus of carnivoran belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (a bear dog). The type species, Gustafsonia cognita, was described in...
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Daphoenodon (category Miocene Amphicyonidae)
carnivore, which lived in the early Miocene and belonged to the family Amphicyonidae ("bear dogs") of the suborder Caniformia. The species of Daphoenodon...
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Tartarocyon (category Miocene Amphicyonidae)
Tartarocyon is an extinct genus of Amphicyonidae, who lived during the late Middle Miocene. It was described after fossilized remains found in Sallespisse...
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Peignecyon (category Amphicyonidae)
Peignecyon is an extinct genus of large carnivorans belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (known colloquially as "bear-dogs"). It belongs to the subfamily Thaumastocyoninae...
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Daphoeninae (category Amphicyonidae)
subfamily of dog-like, terrestrial carnivores, which belonged to the family Amphicyonidae of the suborder Caniformia. The group inhabited North America from the...
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Ysengrinia (category Amphicyonidae)
Ysengrinia is an extinct genus of carnivoran in the family Amphicyonidae, that lived during the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene. Fossil remains have been...
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ISBN 978-0-87169-925-1. Stefen, Clara (2001). "Enamel Structure of Arctoid Carnivora: Amphicyonidae, Ursidae, Procyonidae, and Mustelidae". Journal of Mammalogy. 82 (2):...
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Brachyrhynchocyon (category Amphicyonidae)
extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore, which belonged to the family Amphicyonidae ("bear dogs") of the suborder Caniformia. Many coprolites of B. dodgei...
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al. (2022): Sawecolobus lukeinoensis. Abudhabia tateroides Aepyceros Amphicyonidae indet. (= cf. Bonisicyon) Anancus Apodecter aequatorialis Cephalophinae...
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Infraorder Arctoidea Parvorder Ursida Superfamily †Amphicyonoidea Family †Amphicyonidae Superfamily Ursoidea Family Ursidae: bears Family †Hemicyonidae Superfamily...
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Cynodictis (category Amphicyonidae)
Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: †Amphicyonidae Subfamily: †Amphicyoninae Genus: †Cynodictis Bravard and Pomel, 1850...
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Temnocyoninae (category Amphicyonidae)
Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: †Amphicyonidae Subfamily: †Temnocyoninae Hunt, 1998 Genera Delotrochanter Hunt Jr....
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Thaumastocyoninae (category Amphicyonidae)
Wagner, A. Valenciano, and J. Bella. 2019. A new Thaumastocyoninae (Amphicyonidae, Carnivora) from the early Miocene of Tuchořice, the Czech Republic...
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Pseudocyon (category Amphicyonidae)
years. Pseudocyon was assigned to Amphicyoninae by Hunt in 1988 and to Amphicyonidae by Lartet (1851), Carroll (1988) and Pickford et al. in 2000. Specimens...
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