Afrocyon is an extinct genus of large, mostly carnivorous bone-crushing mammals known as bear dogs, of the family Amphicyonidae endemic to Africa during the Miocene to Pliocene living from 11.6 to 5.3 Ma and existed for approximately .[1]
Afrocyon was named by Arambourg (1961). It was assigned to Amphicyonidae by Carroll (1988).[2]