Phoberogale
| Phoberogale Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Hemicyonidae |
| Subfamily: | Phoberocyoninae |
| Genus: | Phoberogale Ginsberg & Morales, 1995 |
| Type species | |
| Phoberogale bugtiensis (Cooper, 1923) | |
Phoberogale is an extinct genus of bear-like carnivores of the Oligocene and Miocene epoch, found in France (Europe), California (North America), and Pakistan (Asia), living from around 25 to 18 million years ago.
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Skull and lower jaw of Phoberogale shareri, holotype, OCPC 21794 and 21795.
Taxonomy
Phoberogale was named by Ginsberg and Morales in 1995. Its type species is Phoberogale bugtiensis (Cooper, 1923). Phoberogale shareri was named after Kevin Sharer, Chairman of the Board of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County by Xiaoming Wang, Robert Hunt Jr, Richard Tedford and E. Bruce Lander in 2009. This species belongs to the Phoberogale–Phoberocyon lineage and is distinguished from species of Cephalogale (s.s.) by its larger size, less-reduced pre-carnassial premolars,and less-elongated M2.
References
- Xiaoming Wang, Robert M. Hunt, Jr., Richard H. Tedford & E. Bruce Lander (2009). "First record of immigrant Phoberogale (Mammalia, Ursidae, Carnivora) from Southern California" (PDF). Geodiversitas 31 (4): 753–773. doi:10.5252/g2009n4a753.