Hemicyon barbouri Colbert 1941 (bear)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Full reference: E. H. Colbert. 1941. The Ancestral Ursid, Hemicyon, in Nebraska. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 2(5):49-57

Belongs to Hemicyon according to E. H. Colbert 1941

Sister taxa: Hemicyon goriachensis, Hemicyon grivensis, Hemicyon mayorali, Hemicyon minor, Hemicyon sansaniensis, Hemicyon statzlingii

Type specimen: UNSM 2602. Its type locality is Lessig Canyon, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lessig Canyon

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