Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Full reference: C. Frick. 1926. The Hemicyoninae and an American Tertiary bear. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56(1):1-119
Parent taxon: Ursidae according to R. M. Hunt 1998
See also de Bonis et al. 2019, Frick 1926 and Qiu et al. 1991
Sister taxa: Agriotheriinae, Ailuropodinae, Amphicynodontinae, Eoarctos, Harpaleocyon, Metarctos, Myadina, Phoberocyoninae, Proarctotherium, Taxina, Tremarctinae, Ursinae, Ursulus
Subtaxa: Cephalogalini Dinocyon Hemicyon Phoberocyon Plithocyon Zaragocyon
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (3), France (18), Germany (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (6), Turkey (1), United States (16: California, Florida, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico)
• Harrisonian of United States (4: Nebraska, New Mexico, Wyoming)
• Arikareean of United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (7), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 66 collections including 86 occurrences