Cynelos
Temporal range: 20.4–13.7 Ma Early Miocene - Late Miocene
C. lemanensis skull
Restoration of Hyainailouros sulzeri (far left), Cynelos eurydon, Afrosmilus africanus and Hyainailouros napakensis (far right)
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Domain: Eukaryota
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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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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References

  1. ^ Cynelos at fossilworks
  2. ^ Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020.
  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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