Arctocyon - Detail
by Daniel Eskridge
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Arctocyon - Detail
Artist
Daniel Eskridge
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Digital Art - Digital 3d Rendering/cgi
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A detail from a larger work of mine: http://daniel-eskridge.artistwebsites.com/featured/arctocyon-daniel-eskridge.html
Its name means "bear dog" though neither bears nor dogs are that closely related to it. Don't confuse it with Amphicyon which is much more closely related to dogs and bears and is also called a bear-dog (though it's name actually mean 'ambiguous dog').
Arctocyon was about the side of a medium to large dog. It lived during the Paleocene and early Eocene in North America. It was likely an omnivore. Being plantigrade with short legs, it was likely an ambush predator, perhaps one of the first larger mammal predators to fill the niche left by the mass-extintion that wiped out so many dinosaurs.
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March 30th, 2013
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