Cephalogale
Cephalogale Temporal range:
early Oligocene to Miocene | |
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Life reconstruction of Cephalogale shareri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Subfamily: | †Hemicyoninae |
Genus: | †Cephalogale Jourdan, 1862 |
Type species | |
†Cephalogale geoffroyi Jourdan, 1862
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Species | |
†C. shareri (Wang, et al., 2009) |
Cephalogale is an extinct genus of
Mya. Before it was reconsidered to be close to the ancestry of hemicyonines, Cephalogale was once considered to be an ancestor of all bears.[1]
Fossil distribution
- Dětaň, Czech Republic about 33.9—28.4 Mya
- Cetina de Aragon, Spain about 22.4—20 Mya
- Standing Rock Quarry, Zia Sand Formation, Sandoval County, New Mexico about 24.8—20.6 Mya
- Agate Springs Quarries, Sioux County, Nebraska about 23–5.3 Mya
- Hemingford Quarry 12D, Runningwater Formation, Box Butte County, Nebraska about 20.6—16.3 Mya