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Nothocyon

Nothocyon
Temporal range: late Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Infraorder: Arctoidea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Nothocyon
Matthew, 1899
Species: N. geismarianus
Binomial name
Nothocyon geismarianus
(Cope, 1878)

Nothocyon is an extinct genus of carnivoran which inhabited North America during the late Oligocene. At one time, many species of the dog family Canidae were placed in Nothocyon, but new fossils showed that the type species of Nothocyon, N. geismarianus, is more closely related to bears. The other species have been reassigned to other genera such as Cormocyon.


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