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Amphicyoninae
Extinct subfamily of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amphicyoninae is a subfamily of extinct amphicyonids, large terrestrial carnivores sometimes called "bear-dogs", belonging to the suborder Caniformia, which inhabited North America, Eurasia, and Africa from the middle Eocene to the late Miocene.
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Sculpture interpretation of Paludocyon bohemicus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | †Amphicyonidae |
Subfamily: | †Amphicyoninae Trouessart (1885) |
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Amphicyoninae was first named by Trouessart (1885). It was assigned to Canidae by Matthew (1902), to Ursidae by Ginsburg (1977) and to Amphicyonidae by Hunt (1998).[1][2][3]
Genera include:
- Amphicyon, found in both Europe and N. America
- Cynelos, synonyms include Absonodaphoenus (from Florida) and Hecubides (from Africa[4]), endemic to N. America
- Cynodictis
- Ischyrocyon (syn. Hadrocyon), endemic to N. America
- Goupilictis
- Magericyon
- Paludocyon
- Pliocyon, endemic to N. America
- Pseudocyon (syn. Amphicyonopsis), endemic to Europe and N. America