Myacyon is an extinct genus of large sized carnivoran mammals, belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (“bear dogs”), that lived in Africa during the Miocene epoch. Due to the limited scope and fragmentary nature of the severely damaged holotype, as well as the illustrations in its descriptions, which have been called inadequate, usage of this genus poses serious issues.[1][2] However, it is notable for being one of the last surviving members of its family and its adaptions to hypercarnivory.[3] Its relationships to other amphicyonids are obscure, and it is not closely related to Bonisicyon, the other late surviving African genus, although it has been proposed that it descends from a species of Cynelos[4] or Namibiocyon.[5]
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^Morlo, Michael; Miller, Ellen R.; Bastl, Katharina; Abdelgawad, Mohamed K.; Hamdan, Mohammed; El-Barkooky, Ahmed N.; Nagel, Doris (2019). "New Amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Moghra, Early Miocene, Egypt". Geodiversitas. 41 (1): 731–745. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a21. ISSN 1280-9659. S2CID 208284245.
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Myacyon is an extinct genus of large sized carnivoran mammals, belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (“bear dogs”), that lived in Africa during the Miocene...
pontignensis Maemohcyon M. potisati Magericyon M. anceps M. castellanus Myacyon M. dojambir M. kiptalami M. peignei Mogharacyon M. anubisi Namibiocyon...
have led some researchers to suggest that it was ancestral to the genus Myacyon, which was widespread throughout Africa in the middle to late Miocene....
mandibular ramus and elongated m2. Bonisicyon lacks the peculiar m1 of Myacyon dojambir, and numerous features differentiate it from the similarly sized...
species A. kiptalami, in the past, but have since been moved to the genus Myacyon. Only material from Tunisia has been tentatively assigned to cf. Agnotherium...
youngest amphicyonids known. Others tentatively refer this taxon to the genus Myacyon. The migration of Amphicyon from Eurasia to North America was part of a...
2017; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019. ?Myacyon peignei Sp. nov Valid Werdelin Miocene (Serravallian) Kenya A bear dog...
molar and distal end of a humerus A large hypercarnivorous hyaenodont. Myacyon M. kiptalami Member D a snout broken behind the second molar a species...
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