Dinocyon
Dinocyon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Subfamily: | †Hemicyoninae |
Genus: | †Dinocyon Jourdan, 1861 |
Type species | |
†Dinocyon thenardi Jourdan, 1861
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Species | |
†D. aurelianensis (Frick, 1926) |
Dinocyon is an extinct genus of hemicyonine bear of the Miocene epoch, endemic to Europe. It lived from around 20.3–5.3 Ma, existing for approximately 15 million years.
Fossil distribution[]
- Poysbrunn site, Austria
References[]
Qiu Zhanziang (2006), "Dispersals of Neogene Carnivorans between Asia and North America
Categories:
- Hemicyonids
- Miocene carnivorans
- Prehistoric mammals of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 1861
- Prehistoric carnivoran genera
- Prehistoric carnivoran stubs