Cyonasua groeberi is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by Kraglievich and Reig in 1954 in a paper on a new procyonid from the Pliocene of Las Playas in Cordoba Province, Argentina. The Wikipedia list of extinct procyonids gives Amphinasua groeberi Cabrera, 1936 as an earlier name, and the species is now placed in Cyonasua, the dog-coati. The Paleobiology Database records one fossil occurrence, in Cordoba Province, and dates the species from the Tortonian to the Zanclean stages, between about 8 and 3.8 million years ago.
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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 groeberiOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"cc": "AR"
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1. Cyonasua groeberi (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. groeberi Kraglievich & Reig, 1954 [=Amphinasua groeberi Cabrera, 1936]
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†C. groeberi Kraglievich & Reig, 1954 [=Amphinasua groeberi 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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