Jump to content

Plithocyon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plithocyon
Temporal range: Miocene
Plithocyon armagnacensis skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Subfamily: Hemicyoninae
Genus: Plithocyon
Ginsburg, 1955
Species

see text

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.

Fossil distribution

[edit]

Sites and age of some specimens:

Species

[edit]
  • Plithocyon antunesi Ginsburg & Morales, 1998
  • Plithocyon armagnacensis Ginsburg, 1955
  • Plithocyon barstowensis Frick, 1926
  • Plithocyon bruneti Ginsburg, 1980
  • Plithocyon conquense Ginsberg
  • Plithocyon ursinus Cope, 1875

References

[edit]
  • Ginsburg, L. & Morales, J. 1998. Les Hemicyoninae (Ursidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) et les formes apparentées du Miocène inférieur et moyen d'Europe occidentale. Ann. Paléontol. 84 (1): 71–123.