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Product code: F14778
Available: Yes
Provenience: South Dakota - U.S.A. (White River Badlands)
Geological Era: Early Oligocene
Age: 30 million of years
Measure: mm 18 x 8 x 4
"bear-dog" toe foot end, mm 18 x 8 x 4.
Daphoenus is an extinct genus of North American carnivorous mammals that lived during the Eocene to late Oligocene approximately 40 to 27 million years ago. They were similar in morphology to both bears and dogs. The coyote-sized daphoenine "bear dogs" (Daphoenus vetus), along with the cat-like nimravids, were the largest carnivorans in North America during the mid- to late Cenozoic that characterized the last 40 million years.
Daphoenus fossils found in late Oligocene rocks in the Great Plains are dated at 28 Ma. Daphoenus survived to 27 Ma in the Pacific Northwest in the John Day beds of Oregon.
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