| Delotrochanter Temporal range: Oligocene to Early Miocene, ~
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | †Amphicyonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Temnocyoninae |
| Genus: | †Delotrochanter Hunt, 2011 |
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| †Delotrochanter oryktes Hunt, 2011
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Delotrochanter is an extinct genus of large-sized carnivoran mammals, belonging to the Amphicyonidae ("bear dogs"), that lived in the Great Plains of North America during the Oligocene to Early Miocene. This genus includes some of the largest and last surviving members of the subfamily Temnocyoninae. it furthermore possesses adaptions towards both bone-crushing and cursoriality.