Plithocyon

Plithocyon
Temporal range:
Plithocyon armagnacensis skull at the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, Paris.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Subfamily: †Hemicyoninae
Genus: †Plithocyon
Ginsburg, 1955
Species

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Plithocyon is an extinct genus of hemicyonine bear of the Miocene epoch, endemic to North America and Europe. It lived from ~15.97—11.61 Ma, existing for approximately 4 million years.

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