Simocyon primigenius lower jaw at Musee d'Histoire Naturelle Paris.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Family:
Ailuridae
Subfamily:
†Simocyoninae
Genus:
†Simocyon Wagner, 1858
Species
†S. batalleri (Viret, 1929)
†S. diaphorus (Kaup, 1832)
†?S. hungaricus Kretzoi in Kadic and Kretzoi, 1927
†S. primigenius (type species) (Roth and Wagner, 1854)
Synonyms
Amphalopex Kaup, 1861
Araeocyon Thorpe, 1922
Metarctos Gaudry, 1860
Simocyon ("short-snouted dog") is a genus of extinct carnivoran mammal in the family Ailuridae. Simocyon, which was about the size of a mountain lion, lived in the late Miocene and early Pliocene epochs, and has been found in Europe, Asia, and rarely, North America[1] and Africa.[2]
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^Howell, F. Clark; Garcia, Nuria (December 2007). "Carnivora (Mammalia) From Lemudong'o (Late Miocene: Narok District, Kenya)" (PDF). Kirtlandia. 556. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Natural History: 121–139. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
Simocyon ("short-snouted dog") is a genus of extinct carnivoran mammal in the family Ailuridae. Simocyon, which was about the size of a mountain lion,...
its canine teeth. Other early or basal ailurids include Alopecocyon and Simocyon, whose fossils have been found throughout Eurasia and North America dating...
original describers. In 1977, Thenius lumped the species into the genus Simocyon as Simocyon simpsoni, but this was rejected in 2005, instead being split back...
placed various fossil caniform genera into the subfamily. In addition to Simocyon, there was also Oligobunis (an early mustelid), Cephalogale (a stem-bear)...
known Carnivora genera except in the red and giant pandas and the extinct Simocyon where it is hypertrophied (enlarged) into a sixth digit or a so-called...
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