Bear dog fossil skeleton abraham lincoln life cast The short-faced bear (Arctodus simus)

The short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) (Cope-1897)

and horsetails like modern-day Equisetum

Supraorbital (over-the-eye) horns are low and rounded if present at all

Although they look superficially like baboons

6 inches thick

Bear dog fossil skeleton abraham lincoln life cast The short-faced bear (Arctodus simus)MAGNIFICENT BEARDOG SKELETON Family: Amphicyonidae Genus: Daphoenodon Borocyon Indeterminate Species Early Miocene, Early Hemingfordian, Dixie County, Florida A bone crushing predator, this creature is theorized to have been an extinct relative of both bears and dogs, hence its popular name, bear dog. Closely related to true dogs and less related to bears, bear dogs are classified under the extinct family Amphicyonidae large land carnivores which