Prototocyon or Sivacyon is an extinct genus of small omnivorous canid living during the Pleistocene

Pleistocene

The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....

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Taxonomy

Prototocyon was named by Pohle (1928) and was assigned to Canidae by Carroll (1988). It has been included with study of Vulpes bengalensis

Bengal Fox

The Bengal fox , also known as the Indian fox, is a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent and is found from the Himalayan foothills and Terai of Nepal through southern India and from southern and eastern Pakistan to eastern India and southeastern Bangladesh.-Appearance:Vulpes bengalensis is a...

by McKenna and Bell

Fossil distribution

The fossil remains were recovered from the early Pleistocene Upper Siwaliks horizon of the Siwalik Hills, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

(Colbert 1935; Pilgrim 1932).