Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Parent taxon: Caniformia according to S. Tomiya 2011
See also Carroll 1988, Hunt 1998, Hunt 2001, Hunt 2002, Hunt 2002, Hunt 2011, Hunt and Stepleton 2015, Morales et al. 2007, Morlo et al. 2007, Sach and Heizmann 2001, Tomiya and Tseng 2016, Wang et al. 2005, Werdelin and Peigne 2010 and Zhai et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Canoidea, Cynoidea, Lycophocyon
Subtaxa: Amphicyanis Amphicyoninae Angelarctocyon Aphicyoninae Arctamphicyon Aymardia Bonisicyon Brachycyon Cynodictis Cyotherium Daphoeninae Guangxicyon Gustafsonia Haplocyoninae Harpagophagus Notoamphicyon Protemnocyon Pseudamphicyon Pseudocyonopsis Storchictis Symplectocyon Temnocyoninae Thaumastocyoninae
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), China (12), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), France (28), Germany (10), Hungary (1), India (2), Kenya (12), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (6), Nepal (2), Pakistan (10), Panama (1), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (11), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), Uganda (2), Ukraine (1), United States (163: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Harrisonian of United States (34: Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (14: California, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan), the Czech Republic (1), France (7), Georgia (1), Germany (3), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), United States (60: California, Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Mexico (1)
• Eocene of Canada (4: Saskatchewan), China (2), France (7), Mongolia (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (55: Colorado, Georgia, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 482 collections including 606 occurrences