Adilophontes

Adilophontes is an extinct monospecific genus of bear dogs, endemic to North America during the Oligocene to Miocene. It lived from 24.8—20.6 Ma, existing for approximately 4 million years.[1] Fossils have been found in Wyoming.

Adilophontes
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: †Amphicyonidae
Genus: †Adilophontes
Hunt, 2002
Species:
†A. brachykolos
Binomial name
†Adilophontes brachykolos
Hunt, 2002

References
  1. Adilophontes at fossilworks


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