Dinocyon
| Dinocyon Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hemicyoninae |
| Genus: | †Dinocyon Jourdan, 1861 |
| Type species | |
| †Dinocyon thenardi Jourdan, 1861 | |
| Species | |
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†D. aurelianensis (Frick, 1926) | |
Dinocyon is an extinct genus of hemicyonine bear of the Miocene epoch, endemic to Europe. It lived from around 20.3–5.3 Ma, existing for approximately 15 million years.
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