Alopecocyon goeriachensis

Alopecocyon goeriachensis is an extinct carnivoran of the red panda family Ailuridae, placed in the genus Alopecocyon of the subfamily Simocyoninae. It was first described in 1884, although under a different genus, and the genus Alopecocyon was named in 1940. The species is based on fragmentary fossils from the middle Miocene, and the Paleobiology Database records them from the Langhian stage at Sansan in France and in Silesia, Poland. Alopecocyon differed from the earlier Amphictis in having relatively larger second molars compared with its first molars. A 2025 review of the family listed the species under the name Alopecocyon leptorhynchus, treating goeriachensis as a synonym.