Brachycyon
Sign in to saveBrachycyon is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivores belonging to the suborder Caniformia, family Amphicyonidae ("bear dog"), which inhabited Eurasia and North America.
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- Amphicyoninae
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- genus
- taxon name
- Brachycyon
- start time
- 23300000-0
- end time
- 7000000-00
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Brachycyon is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivores belonging to the suborder Caniformia, family Amphicyonidae ("bear dog"), which inhabited Eurasia and North America.
Brachycyon was named by Filhol (1872). It was assigned to Amphicyonidae by Carroll (1988).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brachycyon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.