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Pseudocyon
Extinct genus of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pseudocyon (False dog) is a genus of amphicyonid which inhabited Eurasia and North America during the Miocene epoch living approximately 3.22 million years.[1]
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Pseudocyon sansaniensis | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | †Amphicyonidae |
Subfamily: | †Amphicyoninae |
Genus: | †Pseudocyon Lartet, 1851 |
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Pseudocyon was assigned to Amphicyoninae by Hunt in 1988 and to Amphicyonidae by Lartet (1851), Carroll (1988) and Pickford et al. in 2000.