Phoberogale

Phoberogale
Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene
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.

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 PhoberogalePhoberocyon lineage and is distinguished from species of Cephalogale (s.s.) by its larger size, less-reduced pre-carnassial premolars,and less-elongated M2.

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