Parictis gilpini Clark and Guensburg 1972 (bear)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Alternative combination: Subparictis gilpini

Full reference: J. Clark and T. E. Guensburg. 1972. Arctoid genetic characters as related to the genus Parictis. Fieldiana 26(1):1-71

Belongs to Parictis according to R. M. Hunt 1998

See also Baskin and Tedford 1996, Clark and Guensburg 1972 and Wang and Tedford 1992

Sister taxa: Parictis major, Parictis montanus, Parictis parvus, Parictis personi, Parictis primaevus, Parietis princeous

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ahearn, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (1: Wyoming collection)

• Eocene of United States (6: Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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