Named By: | Joseph Leidy in 1853 |
Time Period: | Late Oligocene-Early Miocene |
Location: | Europe, Africa, North America |
Size: | Estimated weight around 70 kilograms |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Many specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Amphicyonidae | Amphicyoninae | |
Ysengrinia is an extinct genus of large, mostly carnivorous bone-crushing mammals known as bear dogs, of the family Amphicyonidae found in Europe during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene, in North America during the Early Miocene, and possibly in southwestern Africa during the Early Miocene.