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YSENGRINIA
(sen-grin-e-a)
Ysengrinia
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 |
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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.

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