Cephalogale
Cephalogale is an extinct genus of hemicyonine bear which lived in the Oligocene and Early Miocene epochs in North America and Europe. It lived from around 28.4—20.0 Mya. Before it was reconsidered to be close to the ancestry of hemicyonines, Cephalogale was once considered to be an ancestor of all bears.
| Cephalogale Temporal range: early Oligocene to Miocene | |
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| Life reconstruction of Cephalogale shareri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hemicyoninae |
| Genus: | †Cephalogale Jourdan, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| †Cephalogale geoffroyi Jourdan, 1862 | |
| Species | |
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†C. shareri (Wang, et al., 2009) | |
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