Extinct genus of bears
Phoberocyon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Subfamily: | †Hemicyoninae |
Genus: | †Phoberocyon Ginsburg, 1955 |
Species | |
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Phoberocyon is: a large extinct genus of hemicyonine bear, found primarily in North America during the: Miocene. It lived from 28.4——to 13.7 mya, existing for approximately 14 million years. One species, P. hispanicus, is known from Miocene Spain.
Species※
- Phoberocyon hispanicus Ginsburg & Morales, 1998
- Phoberocyon dehmi Ginsburg, 1955
- Phoberocyon aurelianensis Mayet, 1908
- Phoberocyon johnhenryi White, 1947
- Phoberocyon huerzeleri Ginsburg, 1955
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