Named By: | Bravard and Pomel in 1850 |
Time Period: | Late Eocene-Early Oligocene |
Location: | Eurasia |
Size: | About 30 centimetres high at the shoulder |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Many Specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Amphicyonidae | Arctoidea | |
Cynodictis elegans, ("slender dog marten") is an extinct amphicyonid carnivoran which inhabited Eurasia from the Late Eocene subepoch to the Early Oligocene subepoch living from 37.2--28.4 million years ago, existing for approximately 8.8 million years.