Alopecocyon
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Alopecocyon Temporal range: mid-Miocene |
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Fossil
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Eutheria |
| Superorder: | Laurasiatheria |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Superfamily: | Musteloidea |
| Family: | Ailuridae |
| Subfamily: | †Simocyoninae |
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†Alopecocyon Camp & Vanderhoof, 1940 |
| Type species | |
| †Alopecocyon goeriachensis Toula, 1884 |
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| Species | |
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†A. goeriachensis (Toula, 1884) |
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†A. goeriachensis (Toula, 1884)
†A. leardi (Stock, 1947)
†A. getti (Mein, 1958)
Alopecocyon was a small relative of the modern red panda. It weighed only about 11 lb (5 kg). It was closely related to Simocyon, a larger member of its group. Its fossils have been found in France, Poland, and Slovakia.
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