Parictis personi Chaffee 1954 (bear)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Alternative combination: Campylocynodon personi

Full reference: R. G. Chaffee. 1954. Campylocynodon personi, a new Oligocene carnivore from the Beaver Divide, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 28(1):43-46

Belongs to Parictis according to R. M. Hunt 1998

See also Baskin and Tedford 1996, Chaffee 1954, Clark and Beerbower 1967 and Clark and Guensburg 1972

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Beaver Divide Locality 14, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the White River Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Beaver Divide Locality 14

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