Procyonidae - raccoons are related to bears.

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prehistoric-fauna.com/Chapalmalania-altaefrontis

Giant Raccoon (Chapalmalania altaefrontis)

Chapalmalania – a relative of raccoons (Procyonidae), who is so much larger than all other known members of this family, that he first took for a bear.

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I had to google: Chapalmalania: prehistoric-fauna.com/Chapalmalania-altaefrontis

Giant Raccoon (Chapalmalania altaefrontis)

Order: Carnivora

Family: Procyonidae

Temporal range: during the Early Pliocene - Early Pleistocene (South America)

Dimensions: length - 1,7 m, height - 100 сm, weight - 20 -80 kg

A typical representative: Chapalmalania altaefrontis Ameghino, 1908

The remains of Chapalmalania were found in South America, in areas Chapalmal. Chapalmalania – a relative of raccoons (Procyonidae), who is so larger than all other known members of this family, that he first took for a bear. Sediments and chapalmalaliyas fauna show that the Pliocene there was a plain or pampas with rich grasslands, some woody vegetation and numerous streams. Rainfall was probably significant, but the climate was at least as warm as present-day climate of this region; it probably hasn’t had an impact of an approaching ice age.

[King Kodiak]

Giant Raccoon (Chapalmalania altaefrontis) 

Good, i had no idea what that was either. But it has nothing to do with Tremarctinae so i really dont know why its there.

[brobear]

prehistoric-fauna.com/Chapalmalania

Chapalmalania or giant raccoon (Chapalmalania Ameghino, 1908)

Order: Carnivora
Family: Procyonidae
Temporal range: during the Early Pliocene - Early Pleistocene (South America)
Dimensions: length - 1,7 m, height - 100 сm, weight - 20-80 kg ( 80 kg equals 176 pounds ). 
A typical representative: Chapalmalania altaefrontis Ameghino, 1908

[brobear]

Bears are most closely related to the Ailuridae ( red panda group ).

[OldGreenGrolar]

Mustelids are also related to the raccoon family. Both the raccoon and mustelid family seem to be plantigrades as well.

[brobear]

Raccoons are closely related to bears, as both have a common ancestor. However, bears are not descended from the raccoon family - Procyonidae.

[brobear]

WORLD OF PREHISTORIC CREATURES

There are up to 13 species in the raccoon family. These are both ordinary raccoons, and kakomitsli, and noses and kinkage. The most famous and popular, of course, raccoon, is the largest and weighs between 5 and 20 kg. Sometimes more. And he also had a mega relative - Chapalmalania. This South American pliocene raccoon resembles a small bear. When his fossil remains were first found, scientists mistook them as bears.

prehistoric-fauna.com/Chapalmalania-altaefrontis 
 
                                  

[OldGreenGrolar]

The raccoon is more closely related to bears and walruses while hyenas are surprisingly more related to big cats than canines.

[brobear]

List of procyonids

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_procyonids

Procyonidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes raccoons, coatis, olingos, kinkajous, ring-tailed cats, and cacomistles, and many other extant and extinct mammals. A member of this family is called a procyonid. They are native to North and South America, though the common raccoon has been introduced to Europe, western Asia, and Japan. Procyonid habitats are generally forests, though some are found in shrublands and grasslands as well. The ring-tailed cat has a varied range including rocky areas and deserts as well as forests, and the common raccoon is widespread in urban environments. Species range in size from around 30–65 cm (12–26 in) long, plus a tail generally as long again. Population sizes are largely unknown, though the Cozumel raccoon is critically endangered, with around 200 individuals left, and the Eastern mountain coati is endangered. No procyonid species have been domesticated, although raccoons are sometimes kept as pets.

The fourteen species of Procyonidae are split into six genera, which are not currently grouped into named clades. Procyonidae is believed to have diverged as a separate family within Carnivora around 22.6 million years ago. In addition to the extant species, as of 2020 Procyonidae includes forty extinct species placed in the six extant and nineteen extinct genera, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed.

1- Genus Bassaricyon (olingos): four species
2- Genus Bassariscus (ring-tailed cats and cacomistles): two species
3- Genus Nasua (coatis): two species
4- Genus Nasuella (mountain coatis): two species
5- Genus Potos (kinkajous): one species
6- Genus Procyon (raccoons): three species

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Bassaricyon

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassaricyon

The genus Bassaricyon consists of small Neotropical procyonids, popularly known as olingos (/ɒˈlɪŋɡoʊz/), cousins of the raccoon. They are native to the rainforests of Central and South America from Nicaragua to Peru. They are arboreal and nocturnal, and live at elevations from sea level to 2,750 m. Olingos closely resemble another procyonid, the kinkajou, in morphology and habits, though they lack prehensile tails and extrudable tongues, have more extended muzzles, and possess anal scent glands. However, the two genera are not sisters. They also resemble galagos and certain lemurs.

1- Bassaricyon alleni - Eastern lowland olingo.
2- Bassaricyon gabbii - Northern olingo.
3- Bassaricyon medius - Western lowland olingo.
4- Bassaricyon neblina - Olinguito. 

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Bassariscus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassariscus

Bassariscus is a genus in the family Procyonidae. There are two extant species in the genus: the ring-tailed cat or ringtail (B. astutus) and the cacomistle (B. sumichrasti). Genetic studies have indicated that the closest relatives of Bassariscus are raccoons, from which they diverged about 10 million years ago in the Tortonian Age of the Miocene. The two lineages of Bassariscus are thought to have separated after only another two million years, making it the extant procyonid genus with the earliest diversification. Later diversification in the genus in the Pliocene and Pleistocene saw the emergence of two extinct species, Bassariscus casei and Bassariscus sonoitensis, respectively. Due to the more digitigrade stance of their legs compared to the plantigrade stance of other members of Procyonidae, some taxonomies place the genus as a separate family, Bassaricidae.. The name is a Greek word for fox ("bassaris") with a Latinized diminutive ending ("-iscus"). The genus was first described by Elliott Coues in 1887. He proposed the word "bassarisk" as the English term for animals in this genus. Its habitat includes semi-arid areas in the southwestern United States, the whole of Mexico, as well as moist tropical forests in Central America. 
 
1- Bassariscus casei - extinct. 
2- Bassariscus sonoitensis - extinct.
3- Bassariscus astutus - Ring-tailed cat.  
4- Bassariscus sumichrasti - Cacomistle 

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Nasua

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasua

Nasua is a genus of coatis of the family Procyonidae. Two additional species of coatis, commonly known as mountain coatis, are placed in the genus Nasuella.

Nasua differs from Nasuella in being larger and having larger canine teeth, but preliminary genetic evidence (cytochrome b sequences) suggests that Nasuella should be merged into Nasua. Other genetic studies have shown that the closest relatives of the coatis are the olingos (genus Bassaricyon), from which they diverged about 10.2 million years ago.

Like other procyonids, coatis are omnivores. Their diet consists largely of insects (including their larvae), spiders and other invertebrates as well as the occasional small vertebrate discovered while energetically foraging, with their sensitive noses to the ground, in forest leaf litter. On Barro Colorado Island, Panama, where they have been studied in greatest detail, they supplement this diet with copious amounts of fruit as it becomes available seasonally from favored trees, such as figs (Ficus insipida) and hog plums (Spondias mombin). 
 
1- Nasua narica
2- Nasua nasua