Cyonasua lutaria is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by Cabrera in 1936 under the genus Amphinasua and now placed in Cyonasua, the dog-coati. The Paleobiology Database holds the name without a dated occurrence of its own. A 2019 paper by Soibelzon and colleagues, which the database lists among its references for the genus group, reports the first fossil procyonid from Uruguay, and the Wikipedia article on the genus names the Camacho Formation of Uruguay among the places that have produced Cyonasua fossils.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Body Size Band Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Cyonasua lutaria (Paleobiology Database)
Taxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet, taken from Procyonidae
"diet": "frugivore, carnivore"
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Taxon record, classification order
"order": "Carnivora"
View the Source2. Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Extinct taxa
†C. lutaria (Cabrera, 1936) [=Amphinasua lutaria Cabrera, 1936]
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†C. lutaria (Cabrera, 1936) [=Amphinasua lutaria Cabrera, 1936]
View the Source3. Cyonasua (Wikipedia)
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Cyonasua was much larger than any extant procyonid, weighing about 15-25 kg, about the same size as a medium-sized dog.
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