Arctocyonia

Arctocyonidae (from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos), meaning "bear", and κύων (kúon), meaning "dog", and thus, "bear-dog") is an extinct, possibly polyphyletic family of placental mammals which lived from the late Cretaceous to the early Eocene. They were initially regarded as creodonts, though have since been reassigned to an order of their own, the Arctocyonia. Some have suggested that arctocyonids are ancestral to modern-day artiodactyls, or that they form a sister group. However, more recent phylogenetic analyses suggest that arctocyonids may represent an artificial grouping of extinct ungul

Arctocyon (from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos), meaning "bear", and κύων (kúon), meaning "dog", and thus, "bear-dog") is an extinct genus of large placental mammals, part of the possibly polyphyletic family Arctocyonidae. The type species is A. primaevus, though up to five other species may be known. Fossils of Arctocyon have been found in Europe and North America. Arctocyon was originally named as a subgenus of the bear-dog Amphicyon, though was subsequently found to belong to a genus and family of its own. The relationship between arctocyonids and other placentals is unclear, with early class

Arctocyonians (Arctocyonia; also known as "Procreodi") (from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos), meaning "bear", and κύων (kúon), meaning "dog", and thus, "bear-dog") are a clade of laurasiatherian mammals whose stratigraphic range runs from the Palaeocene to the Early Eocene epochs. They were among the earliest examples of major mammalian predators after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. While some classify arctocyonians as stem-artiodactyls, others have classified the group as members of Ferae. There are three families classified in the order: Arctocyonidae, Oxyclaenidae, and Quettacyoni