Phoberocyon
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Phoberocyon Temporal range: Early Miocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Family: | Hemicyonidae |
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Phoberocyon Ginsburg, 1955 |
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Phoberocyon is a large extinct genus of carnivorous Hemicyonid, found primarily in North America during the Miocene living from 20.6—16.3 mya, existing for approximately 4.3 million years. One species, P. hispanicus, is known from Miocene Spain.
Phoberocyon was named by Ginsburg (1955). It was assigned to Ursidae by Ginsburg (1955) and Carroll (1988); and to Hemicyoninae by Hunt (1998).
Two specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.
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