Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Parent taxon: Amphicyonidae according to R. M. Hunt 1998
See also Ginsburg 1977, Hunt and Stepleton 2015, Matthew 1902, Peigné et al. 2008 and Savage 1965
Sister taxa: Amphicyanis, Angelarctocyon, Aphicyoninae, Arctamphicyon, Aymardia, Bonisicyon, Brachycyon, Cynodictis, Cyotherium, Daphoeninae, Guangxicyon, Gustafsonia, Haplocyoninae, Harpagophagus, Notoamphicyon, Protemnocyon, Pseudamphicyon, Pseudocyonopsis, Storchictis, Symplectocyon, Temnocyoninae, Thaumastocyoninae
Subtaxa: Afrocyon Amphicyon Amphicyonini Goupilictis Ischyrocyon Magericyon Megamphicyon Mogharacyon Myacyon Namibiocyon Pliocyon Pseudarctini Pseudocyon Tartarocyon Thaumastocyonini Vishnucyon
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (7), Egypt (2), France (27), Germany (9), India (2), Kenya (10), Namibia (5), Nepal (2), Pakistan (9), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (8), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), Uganda (2), Ukraine (1), United States (121: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia)
• Harrisonian of United States (3: Nebraska)
• Arikareean of United States (1: California)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Switzerland (1)
Total: 232 collections including 300 occurrences