Ysengrinia
Ysengrinia Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | †Amphicyonidae |
Subfamily: | †Amphicyoninae |
Genus: | †Ysengrinia Leidy (1853) |
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Ysengrinia is an extinct genus of bear dogs found in Europe and North America, and possibly in southwestern Africa, during the Early Miocene.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ McKenna, M.C.; Bell, S.K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.
- ^ Hunt, R.M. (2002). "Intercontinental migration of Neogene Amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora): Appearance of the Eurasian beardog Ysengrinia in North America". American Museum Novitates (3384): 1–53. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2002)384<0001:imonam>2.0.co;2. hdl:2246/2873.
Categories:
- Bear dogs
- Miocene carnivorans
- Miocene genus extinctions
- Prehistoric mammals of North America
- Prehistoric mammals of Europe
- Miocene mammals of Africa
- Chattian genus first appearances
- Prehistoric carnivoran genera
- Prehistoric carnivoran stubs