Parictis major Clark and Guensburg 1972 (bear)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Alternative combination: Amphicynodon major

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 and Clark and Guensburg 1972

Sister taxa: Parictis gilpini, Parictis montanus, Parictis parvus, Parictis personi, Parictis primaevus, Parietis princeous

Type specimen: Its type locality is Peanut Peak, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Peanut Peak

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