In Depth With confirmed fossils of Daphoenodon stretching all the way from California and Oregon on the west coast to Florida on the east, and between Wyoming and Nebraska in the North and Texas in the South, Daphoenodon had a very broad range across most of the United States. This distribution could have also brought … Read more
In Depth With fossils being recovered from both Oregon and Florida, Pliocyon seems to have a distribution that covered most of the United States. Further Reading – Contributions to the Snake Creek Fauna with notes upon the Pleistocene of western Nebraska, American Museum Expedition of 1916. – Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History … Read more
In Depth Unfortunately we cannot not bring you too much information about Protemnocyon at this time other than the little that is stated above. The name Protemnocyon is a reference to another species of bear dog called Temnocyon that was active in North America during the Oligocene to Miocene periods. Further Reading – Oligocene Canidae. … Read more
In Depth Ischyrocyon appears to have been around mid-sized for one of the North American bear dogs being much bigger than some genera such as Temnocyon and Cynelos, but still much smaller than giants like Amphicyon. The type species name I. hyaenodus means ‘hyaena tooth’, a reference to the similarity of the teeth of Ischyrocyon … Read more
In Depth Although no way near as popular as the large ‘bear dogs’ such as Amphicyon, the large number of fossil remains for Daphoenus actually make it one of if not the best represented of the North American bear dogs. Daphoenus is actually the type genus of a special sub group of amphicyonids called the … Read more
In Depth Hailing from southern China, Guangxicyon is noted for having a short face, something which may have been an adaptation for focusing the force of the jaw closing muscles for an increased bite force. This may have been enough to allow Guangxicyon enough bite force to crunch through bones. Other short faced bear dogs … Read more
In Depth A relatively small canid, Eucyon is one of the earliest true dogs to enter the fossil record. Living during the late Miocene it would have been in competition with larger and more dangerous predators such as the amphicyonids, however Eucyon and its relatives were better adapted to the on-going climatic changes of the … Read more
In Depth Paradaphoenus acquired its name from its superficial similarity to another bear dog called Daphoenus. Depending upon the palaeontologist, Paradaphoenus has been assigned a more general position within the Amphicyonidae, as well as a more precise classification within the Daphoeninae, the group named after Daphoenus. At almost two kilos Paradaphoenus was one of the … Read more
In Depth Unfortunately we cannot bring much information on this bear dog. Further Reading Further reading- �ber tertia?re Spaltenf�llungen im Fr�nkischen und Schw�bischen Jura [On Tertiary fissure fillings in the Franconian and Swabian Jura]. – Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 29:1-86. – R. Dehm – 1935.
In Depth Harpagophagus is but one of many ‘bear dog’ genera that lived in Europe during the Oligocene. Further Reading Further reading- Deux nouveaux carnassiers de Phosphorites du Quercy. – Annales de Paleontologie 57:117-127. – L. De Bonis – 1971.