Pogonodon
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| Pogonodon | |
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| Skull of P. platycopis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | †Nimravidae |
| Subfamily: | †Nimravinae |
| Genus: | †Pogonodon Cope, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| †Pogonodon platycopis (Cope, 1879) | |
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Pogonodon is an extinct genus of cat-like nimravid endemic to North America during the Oligocene from 32.0 to 25.9 Ma.[1][2] Including supplementary materials The genus the consists of two species P. davisi and P. platycopis.[3] Pogonodon was the last nimravine to go extinct in North America, possibly due to competition with amphicyonids and expansion of grasslands. Its extinction marked the beginning of the cat gap, a 7 million year period without any cat-like predators in North America.[4]
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