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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hemicyoninae |
| Genus: | †Phoberocyon Ginsburg, 1955 |
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Phoberocyon is a large extinct genus of hemicyonine bear, found primarily in North America during the Miocene. It lived from 28.4 to 13.7 mya, existing for approximately 14 million years.[1] One species, P. hispanicus, is known from Miocene Spain.