Cynelos

<i>Cynelos</i>

Cynelos

Extinct genus of carnivores

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]

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Species

  • 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

  1. [1]
    Cynelos at fossilworks
  2. [2]
    Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020.
  3. [3]
    Morla (2021). "A new species of the amphicyonid carnivore Cynelos Jourdan, 1862 from the early Miocene of North America". In Bonis, L. de; Werdelin, L. (eds.). Memorial to Stéphane Peigné: Carnivores (Hyaenodonta and Carnivora) of the Cenozoic. Vol. 42. pp. 57–67. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a5. S2CID 212688503. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)


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