Paradaphoenus Temporal range: 33.3–15.97 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Oligocene-Middle Miocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	†Amphicyonidae
Genus:	†Paradaphoenus Wortman, Matthew (1899)
Species
P. cuspigerus P. minimus P. tooheyi

Paradaphoenus is a physically small amphicyonid that inhabited North America from the Early Oligocene to the Middle Miocene, 33.3—15.97 Ma, existing for approximately 17 million years.^[1] Fossils have been found at Haystack, Oregon, Banner County, Nebraska, Dawes County, Nebraska, and Sheep Mtn, South Dakota.