Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Alternative combination: Subparictis gilpini
Full reference: J. Clark and T. E. Guensburg. 1972. Arctoid genetic characters as related to the genus Parictis. Fieldiana 26(1):1-71
Belongs to Parictis according to R. M. Hunt 1998
See also Baskin and Tedford 1996, Clark and Guensburg 1972 and Wang and Tedford 1992
Sister taxa: Parictis major, Parictis montanus, Parictis parvus, Parictis personi, Parictis primaevus, Parietis princeous
Type specimen: Its type locality is Ahearn, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: Wyoming collection)
• Eocene of United States (6: Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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