Chapalmalania

Chapalmalania is an extinct genus of procyonid from the Pliocene (Chapadmalalan to Uquian) of Argentina and Colombia (Ware Formation, Cocinetas Basin, La Guajira).
Description.
Though related to raccoons and coatis, "Chapalmalania" was a large creature, reaching about in body length, with a short tail. "Chapalmalania" is estimated to have weighed approximately , comparable in size to an American black bear ("Ursus americanus"). Due to its size, its remains were initially identified as those of a bear. It evolved from the "dog-coati" "Cyonasua", which probably island-hopped from Central America during the late Miocene (7.5 million years ago), as perhaps the earliest southward mammalian migrants of the Great American Interchange. When the Isthmus of Panama rose from the sea to allow further invasions by other North American species, "Chapalmalania" was unable to compete and its lineage became extinct.
"Chapalmalania" is thought to have had an omnivorous diet similar to modern bears based on dental morphology. Bite marks attributable to "Chapalmalania" have been found on a glyptodont carcass and have been interpreted as scavenging behavior, suggesting that "Chapalmalania" also fed on carrion of large mammals on at least some occasions.