Pseudocyon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Middle Miocene (Langhian to Serravallian) {{Fossil range|15.97|12.75}} | image = Pseudocyon sansaniensis.jpeg | image_caption = ''Pseudocyon sansaniensis'' | taxon = Pseudocyon | authority = Lartet, 1851 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * †''P. sansaniensis'' * †''P. steinheimensis'' * †''P. styriacus'' | synonyms = * ''Amphicyonopsis'' }}

'''''Pseudocyon''''' (False dog) is a genus of amphicyonid which inhabited Eurasia and North America during the Miocene epoch living approximately {{Mya|15.97-12.75|million years}}.<ref>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41294 Paleobiology Database: ''Pseudocyon'', age range and collections]</ref>

''Pseudocyon'' was assigned to Amphicyoninae by Hunt in 1988 and to Amphicyonidae by Lartet (1851), Carroll (1988) and Pickford et al. in 2000.

==Fossil distribution== Specimens were located in Belomechetskaia Russian Federation, Santa Cruz, New Mexico, Pontigne and Malartic, a la ferme Larrieu, France, and Nebraska. The largest fossil find was of a mandible (F:AM 49247) founded in New Mexico. The mass estimate derived from the mandible was about 773 kg, representing a very large individual of ''Pseudocyon''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Figueirido |first1=Borja |last2=Pérez-Claros |first2=Juan A. |last3=Hunt |first3=Robert M. |last4=Palmqvist |first4=Paul |title=Body Mass Estimation in Amphicyonid Carnivoran Mammals: A Multiple Regression Approach from the Skull and Skeleton |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |date=June 2011 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=225–246 |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0005 |s2cid=56051166 |url=https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100005.pdf |access-date=27 February 2023}}</ref>

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Category:Prehistoric mammals of North America Category:Amphicyonidae Category:Miocene carnivorans Category:Prehistoric carnivoran genera