Plithocyon Temporal range:
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Plithocyon armagnacensis skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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.
Sites and age of some specimens: