Named By: | Lartet in 1851 |
Time Period: | 23.3-7 Ma Early Miocene - Middle Miocene |
Location: | Eurasia and North America |
Size: | Weight estimated at up to 773 kilograms |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Many specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Caniformia | Amphicyonidae | |
Also known as: | | Amphicyonopsis | |
Pseudocyon is a genus of bear dog carnivoran which inhabited Eurasia and North America during the Miocene epoch living approximately 5.3 million years.
Pseudocyon was assigned to Amphicyoninae by Hunt in 1988 and to Amphicyonidae by Lartet (1851), Carroll (1988) and Pickford et al. in 2000. It is synonymous with Amphicyonopsis.