Cynelos
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| Cynelos Temporal range: Early Miocene - Late Miocene
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| File:Cynelos lemanensis.JPG | |
| C. lemanensis skull | |
| File:Africa - the evolution of a continent and its large mammal fauna (2006) fig. 8.png | |
| Restoration of Hyainailouros sulzeri (far left), Cynelos eurydon, Afrosmilus africanus and Hyainailouros napakensis (far right) | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | †Amphicyonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Amphicyoninae |
| Genus: | †Cynelos Jourdan, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| †Amphicyon lemanensis | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
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Cynelos is a large extinct genus of amphicyonids which inhabited North America, Europe, and Africa from the Early Miocene subepoch to the Late Miocene subepoch 20.4–13.7 Mya, existing for approximately 6 million years.[1]
Species
[edit | edit source]- C. caroniavorus White, 1942
- C. idoneus Matthew, 1924
- C. lemanensis Pomel, 1846
- C. malasi Hunt & Stepleton, 2015
- C. stenos Hunt Jr. and Yatkola, 2020[2]
- C. jitu Morlo, 2021[3]
- C. sinapius Matthew, 1902
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Cynelos at fossilworks
- ^ Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020.
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