Cyonasua meranii is an extinct species of procyonid, a member of the raccoon family, described by Ameghino and Kraglievich in 1925 under the genus Brachynasua and now placed in Cyonasua, the dog-coati. The Wikipedia article on the genus singles it out because its holotype is the only known specimen and comes from an early Pleistocene layer dated to the Jaramillo Chron, about 0.99 million years ago, which shows that members of the genus survived much later than the rest. The Paleobiology Database holds the name without a dated occurrence of its own.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Body Size Band Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Cyonasua meranii (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. meranii (Ameghino & Kraglievich 1925) [=Brachynasua meranii Ameghino & Kraglievich 1925]
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†C. meranii (Ameghino & Kraglievich 1925) [=Brachynasua meranii Ameghino & Kraglievich 1925]
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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