Procyon megalokolos is an extinct species of raccoon, a member of the raccoon family, described by Emmert and Short in 2018 in a paper on three new procyonids from the Blancan of Florida. The Paleobiology Database records one fossil occurrence, in Citrus County, Florida, and dates it to the Gelasian stage of the early Pleistocene, between about 2.58 and 1.8 million years ago. It belongs to the genus Procyon, which also holds the living common raccoon, and the database gives it an omnivore and carnivore diet taken from the genus.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
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Source The Paleobiology Database: Occurrences of Procyon megalokolosOccurrence record, placeQuote, Occurrence record, place
"state": "Florida"
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1. Procyon megalokolos (Paleobiology Database)
Taxon record, extant status
"is_extant": "extinct"
Ecospace record, environment
"taxon_environment": "terrestrial"
Ecospace record, diet, taken from Procyon
"diet": "omnivore, carnivore"
In Group: Mustelids, Procyonids And Other Carnivorans, Taxon record, classification order
"order": "Carnivora"
View the Source2. Procyonidae (Wikipedia)
Extinct taxa
†P. megalokolos Emmert & Short, 2018
Child Taxon Of: Procyonidae, Extinct taxa, listed under Procyonidae
†P. megalokolos Emmert & Short, 2018
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