| Phoberogale Temporal range: | |
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| Skull and lower jaw of Phoberogale shareri, holotype, OCPC 21794 and 21795. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hemicyoninae |
| Genus: | †Phoberogale Ginsberg & Morales, 1995 |
| Type species | |
| Phoberogale bugtiensis (Cooper, 1923) | |
Phoberogale is an extinct genus of hemicyonine bear, which lived during the Early Miocene, found in France, California, and Pakistan, from 22 to 20 million years ago.
References
- Xiaoming Wang; Robert M. Hunt, Jr.; Richard H. Tedford; E. Bruce Lander (2009). "First record of immigrant Phoberogale (Mammalia, Ursidae, Carnivora) from Southern California" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 31 (4): 753–773. doi:10.5252/g2009n4a753. S2CID 129115561. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12.
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