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Arctonasua

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Musteloidea

Subfamily
  
Procyoninae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
Procyonidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivores

Similar
  
Carnivores, Cyonasua, Chapalmalania, Nasuella, Beddard's olingo

Arctonasua is an extinct genus of raccoon-like procyonid of the Miocene, endemic to North America living from ~17.3—8.4 Mya, existing for approximately 8.9 million years.

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Procyonidae includes the raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, ringtails and cacomistles. Procyonids inhabit a wide range of environments, and are generally omnivorous.

A. eurybates

A. eurybates was named by Baskin (1982). Its type locality is ZXBar, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Snake Creek Formation of Nebraska.

Body mass

A single specimen was examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.

  • Specimen: 17.3 kg (38 lb).

    • Fossil distribution

  • ZXBar site aka Cook's Pliohippus Quarry, Sioux County, Nebraska, estimated age: ~10.5—10.4 Ma.

    • A. floridana

    A. floridana was named by Baskin (1982) as a genotype. Its type locality is Love Bone Bed, which is in a Clarendonian marginal marine horizon in the Alachua Formation of Florida. It is the type species of Arctonasua.

    Body mass

    A single specimen was examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.

  • Specimen: 13.2 kg (29 lb)

    • Fossil distribution

  • Love Bone Bed site, Alachua County, Florida, estimated age: ~11.5 Ma.

    • A. fricki

    A. fricki was named by Baskin (1982).

    Fossil distribution

  • Optima site aka Guymon, OMNH V5, or UCMP V-2902, Texas County, Oklahoma, estimated age: ~8.4 Ma.

    • A. gracilis

    A. gracilis was named by Baskin (1982).

    Body mass

    A single specimen was examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.

  • Specimen: 6.4 kg (14 lb).

    • Fossil distribution

  • Egelhoff Quarry aka UNSM Kp-101, Brown County, Nebraska estimated age: ~8.4 Ma.
  • Trinity River Pit 1 (TMM 40196), San Jacinto County, Texas, estimated age: ~17.3 Ma.

    • A. minima

    A minima was named by Baskin (1982).

    Body mass

    A single specimen was examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.

  • Specimen: 5.28 kg (12 lb).

    • Fossil distribution

  • Observation Quarry, Dawes County, Nebraska, estimated age: ~17.1 Ma.

    • References

    Arctonasua Wikipedia
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