Gobicyon is an extinct genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 carnivore

Carnivore

A carnivore meaning 'meat eater' is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging...

 belonging to the family Canidae

Canidae

Canidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and domestic dogs. A member of this family is called a canid . The Canidae family is divided into two tribes: Canini and Vulpini...

 ("bear dog") endemic to Central Asia

Central Asia

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 from the Early Miocene

Early Miocene

The Early Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages....

 subepoch through Late Miocene

Late Miocene

The Late Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch....

 subepoch 13.6—11.6 Ma, existing for approximately .

Gobicyon was named by Colbert in 1839.

Sister genera

Alopex

Alopex

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, Caedocyon

Caedocyon

Caedocyon is an extinct genus of bone crushing omnivorous mammal similar to a dog of the family Canidae) which inhabited western North America during the Oligocene living from 30.8—20.6 Ma and existed for approximately ....

, Canis

Canis

Canis is a genus containing 7 to 10 extant species, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals, and many extinct species.-Wolves, dogs and dingos:Wolves, dogs and dingos are subspecies of Canis lupus...

(synonymous with Aenocyon, Lyciscus), Cerdocyon, Chailicyon

Chailicyon

Chailicyon is an extinct genus of canidae, suborder Caniformia.-Sources:**The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America by Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry ISBN 0521433878...

, Chrysocyon, Cuon, Cynodesmus

Cynodesmus

Cynodesmus is an extinct genus of omnivorous canine which inhabited North America during the Oligocene living from 33.3—-26.3 Ma and existed for approximately ....

, Cynotherium, Dusicyon

Dusicyon

Dusicyon is a genus of extinct South American canids. The type species is Dusicyon australis, the extinct Falkland Islands Wolf. In 1914, Oldfield Thomas established the genus Dusicyon, in which he included the Culpeo and other South American foxes...

, Ectopocynus

Ectopocynus

Ectopocynus is an extinct genus of small bone crushing carnivorous mammal similar to a dog of the family Canidae) which inhabited North America during the Oligocene living from 33.3—16.0 Ma and existed for approximately ....

, Enhydrocyon

Enhydrocyon

Enhydrocyon is an extinct genus of bone crushing dog which inhabited North America exclusively during the Oligocene living from around 28.7—22.0 Ma and existed for approximately ....

(syn. Hyaenocyon), Eucyon

Eucyon

Eucyon is an extinct genus of small omnivorous fox-like canid endemic to North America during the Miocene living from 10.3—5.3 Ma and existed for approximately .-Taxonomy:...

, Hesperocyon

Hesperocyon

Hesperocyon is an extinct genus of canids, family of Canidae and subfamily Hesperocyoninae which was endemic to North America from southern Canada to appearing during the Uintan age-Bridgerian age of the Mid-Eocene 42.5 mya—31.0 Ma. . Hesperocyon existed for approximately .-Taxonomy:Hesperocyon...

(synonymous with Pseudocynodictis), Leptocyon

Leptocyon

Leptocyon is a small extinct genus of canidae endemic to North America during the Oligocene through Miocene living from 24.8—10.3 mya, existing for approximately .Leptocyon was a small bodied, fox-like animal with a slender jaw.-Taxonomy:...

, Mesocyon

Mesocyon

Mesocyon is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore within the family Canidae, subfamily Hesperocyoninae, which inhabited North America from the Early Oligocene 33.9—20.6 Ma, existing for approximately ....

(synonymous with Hypotemnodon), Neocynodesmus

Neocynodesmus

Neocynodesmus is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore within the family Canidae which inhabited North America from the Oligocene to Early Miocene 30.8—-20.6 Mya existing for approximately .-Taxonomy:...

, Nyctereutes

Nyctereutes

Nyctereutes is an east Asian genus of the family Canidae, consisting of just one living species, the Raccoon Dog. Nyctereutes appeared about 9.0 Ma, with all but one species becoming extinct before the Pleistocene.-Taxonomy:...

, Osbornodon

Osbornodon

Osbornodon is an extinct genus of bone-crushing canid that were endemic to North America and which lived from the Orellan age of the Early Oligocene to Early Miocene epoch 33.9—15.97 Ma and existed for approximately ....

, Otocyon, Paraenhydrocyon

Paraenhydrocyon

Paraenhydrocyon is an extinct genus of bone crushing omnivorous mammal similar to a dog of the family Canidae which inhabited North America during the Oligocene living from 33.3—20.6 Ma and existed for approximately ....

, Philotrox

Philotrox

Philotrox is an extinct genus of bone crushing omnivorous mammal similar to a dog of the family Canidae) which inhabited North America during the Oligocene living from 30.8—26.3 Ma and existed for approximately .-Taxonomy:...

, Protocyon

Protocyon

Prototcyon is an extinct genus of small omnivorous canid endemic to South America during the middle to Late Pleistocene living from 1.2 Ma to 11,000 years ago and existed for approximately .-Fossil distribution:...

, Prototocyon

Prototocyon

Prototocyon or Sivacyon is an extinct genus of small omnivorous canid living during the Pleistocene.-Taxonomy:Prototocyon was named by Pohle and was assigned to Canidae by Carroll...

, Pseudalopex

Pseudalopex

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, Sunkahetanka

Sunkahetanka

Sunkahetanka is an extinct genus of small bone crushing omnivorous mammal similar to a dog of the family Canidae) which inhabited North America during the Oligocene living from 30.8—26.3 Ma and existed for approximately .-Taxonomy:...

, Theriodictis

Theriodictis

Theriodictis is an extinct genus of small hypercarnivorous fox-like canid endemic to South America during the Pleistocene, living from 1.2 Ma-11,000 years ago and existing for approximately ....

, Urocyon

Urocyon

The genus Urocyon is a genus that contains two living Western Hemisphere foxes in the family Canidae, the Gray Fox and the closely related Island Fox which is a dwarf cousin of the Gray Fox; as well as one fossil species, Urocyon progressus.Urocyon and the...

, Vulpes

Vulpes

Vulpes is a genus of the Canidae family. Its members are referred to as 'true foxes', although there are species in other genera whose common names include the word 'fox'....

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