Alopecocyon
Sign in to saveAlopecocyon is a fossil genus of ailurid belonging to the subfamily Simocyoninae. It has two species, Alopecocyon goeriachensis and Alopecocyon getti. It is based on fragmentary fossils dating to the middle Miocene of both Europe and Asia.
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Alopecocyon is a fossil genus of ailurid belonging to the subfamily Simocyoninae. It has two species, Alopecocyon goeriachensis and Alopecocyon getti. It is based on fragmentary fossils dating to the middle Miocene of both Europe and Asia.
==Taxonomy and evolution== The species A. goerichiachensis was first described (but in a different genus) in 1884. The genus was first named in 1940. A second species A. getti was described in 1958.
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