†subfamily Hemicyoninae Frick 1926 (bear)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 54398
Full reference: C. Frick. 1926. The Hemicyoninae and an American Tertiary bear. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56(1):1-119
Parent taxon: Ursidae according to R. M. Hunt 1998
Sister taxa: Agriotheriinae, Ailuropodinae, Amphicynodontinae, Harpaleocyon, Hemicyon, Metarctos, Myadina, Phoberocyoninae, Proarctotherium, Subparictidae, Taxina, Thaumastocyon, Tremarctinae, Ursinae, Ursulus, Zaragocyon
Subtaxa: Cephalogalini, Dinocyon, Phoberocyon, Plithocyon
Ecology: scansorial insectivore