Cyonasua pascuali is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by Oscar Linares in 1981 under the genus Amphinasua in a paper on three new fossil procyonid carnivores from the Miocene of North and South America. It is now placed in Cyonasua, the dog-coati. The Paleobiology Database records two fossil occurrences, in Mendoza Province in Argentina and in Bolivia, and dates the species from the Tortonian to the Zanclean stages, between about 8 and 5 million years ago. The Wikipedia article on the genus lists the Tariquia Formation of Bolivia among the sites that produced Cyonasua fossils.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Body Size Band Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Cyonasua pascualiOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"cc": "BO"
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Cyonasua pascualiOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Mendoza"
Sources
1. Cyonasua pascuali (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. pascuali Linares, 1981 [=Amphinasua pascuali Linares, 1981]
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†C. pascuali Linares, 1981 [=Amphinasua pascuali Linares, 1981]
View the Source3. Cyonasua (Wikipedia)
LeadQuote, Lead
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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