†subfamily Amphicyoninae Trouessart 1885 (bear-dog)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

Parent taxon: Amphicyonidae according to R. M. Hunt 1998

See also Ginsburg 1977, Hunt and Stepleton 2015, Matthew 1902, Peigné et al. 2008 and Savage 1965

Sister taxa: Amphicyanis, Angelarctocyon, Aphicyoninae, Arctamphicyon, Aymardia, Bonisicyon, Brachycyon, Cynodictis, Cyotherium, Daphoeninae, Guangxicyon, Gustafsonia, Haplocyoninae, Harpagophagus, Notoamphicyon, Protemnocyon, Pseudamphicyon, Pseudocyonopsis, Storchictis, Symplectocyon, Temnocyoninae, Thaumastocyoninae

Subtaxa: Afrocyon Amphicyonini Goupilictis Ischyrocyon Magericyon Mogharacyon Myacyon Namibiocyon Pliocyon Pseudarctini Pseudocyon Thaumastocyonini Vishnucyon

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), South Africa (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (7), Egypt (2), France (27), Germany (8), India (2), Kenya (9), Namibia (5), Nepal (2), Pakistan (9), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (8), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), Uganda (2), Ukraine (1), United States (120: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia)

• Harrisonian of United States (3: Nebraska)

• Arikareean of United States (1: California)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)

• Oligocene of France (2), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Switzerland (1)

Total: 228 collections including 295 occurrences

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