Actiocyon
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Through North America and Europe
Description
The holotype consisted of portions of a snout containing the palate with some teeth. Stock noted overall similarities to their contemporary genus Alopecocyon of Europe, though he tentatively classified Actiocyon as a procyonid due to the structure of fourth premolar and first molar. Some later authors have suggested Actiocyon to be a junior synonym of Alopecocyon, though others have maintained the two as separated but related genera due to difference in dental and jaw morphology. A second and earlier species, A. parverratis, was described by Smith et al. (2016) and was the earliest known simocyonine from North America.
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