Amphicynodon
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| Amphicynodon Temporal range: Oligocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Superfamily: | Arctoidea |
| Family: | Ursoidae |
| Genus: | Amphicynodon |
| Species: | Filhol (1881) |
Amphicynodon is an extinct genus of mammal of the superfamily Ursoidea, endemic to Europe and Asia during the Oligocene, living from ~33.9—28.4 Mya, existing for approximately 5.5 million years.
Amphicynodon is a small basal member of Ursoidae similar to early Mustelids in both size and existence.
[edit] Taxonomy
Amphicynodon was named by Filhol (1881). It was assigned to Phocoidea by McKenna and Bell (1997) then to Ursidae by Filhol (1881) and Hunt (1998); and to Ursoidea by Wang et al. (2005).[1][2]
[edit] Fossil distribution
Sites and specimen ages:
[edit] References
- Rose, Kenneth David, The beginning of the age of mammals,The Johns Hopkins University Press (September 26, 2006)
- ^ M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640
- ^ X. Wang, M. C. McKenna, and D. Dashzeveg. 2005. Amphicticeps and Amphicynodon (Arctoidea, Carnivora) from Hsanda Gol Formation, Central Mongolia and phylogeny of basal arctoids with comments on zoogeography. American Museum Novitates 3483:1-57
- ^ http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=basicCollectionSearch&collection_list=31767 Paleobiolgy database: Ronzon collection]
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