Pseudarctos

Pseudarctos
Temporal range: 16.9–11.1 Ma

Early Oligocene-Early Miocene

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: †Amphicyonidae
Genus: Pseudarctos
Schlosser (1899)
Species
  • P. bavaricus

Pseudarctos is a member of the extinct family Amphicyonidae of terrestrial carnivores belonging to the suborder Caniformia, which inhabited Eurasia from the Early Miocene subepoch to the Miocene epoch 16.9—11.1 Ma, existing for approximately 5.8 million years.[1]

Pseudarctos was named Schlosser in 1899 and was assigned to Amphicyonidae by Carroll (1988). It was the size of a large fox.[2]

Species

P. bavaricus

Sister genera

Afrocyon, Amphicyanis, Arctamphicyon, Brachycyon, Cynodictis, Drassonax, Goupilictis, Guangxicyon, Haplocyon, Haplocyonoides, Haplocyonopsis, Harpagophagus, Ictiocyon, Pachycynodon, Paradaphoenus, Protemnocyon, Pseudamphicyon, Pseudocyonopsis, Sarcocyon, Symplectocyon, Vishnucyon.

Fossil distribution

Pseudarctos has been uncovered in Tung Gur China, Sandberg, Slovakia, and Malartic, a la ferme Larrieu, France.

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Paleobiology Database: Pseudarctos, age range and collections
  2. ↑ Systematic Paleontology


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