Ysengrinia

Ysengrinia (†Ysengrinia (Leidy,1853))

 

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Suborder: Caniformia

Superfamily: Arctoidea

Family: †Amphicyonidae

Subfamily: †Amphicyoninae

Time period: the Late Oligocene - Early Miocene of Europe and North America (Africa?) 

Size: Up to‭ ‬1.4‭ ‬meters long, 70 cm tall at the shoulder.  Weight around 70 kilograms.

Species: Y. gerandiana (type), Y. americana, Y. depereti, Y. ginsburgi, Y. tolosana, Y. valentiana.

 

Ysengrinia is an extinct genus of bear dogs found in Europe and North America, and possibly in southwestern Africa, during the Early Miocene. Dated to the Oligocene period, Ysengrinia is one of the earliest of the larger bear dogs (earlier ones like Cynodictis were smaller) and lived at a time when the world was dominated by creodont predators.