Cynelos
| Cynelos Temporal range: Early Miocene - Late Miocene
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| C. lemanensis skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | †Amphicyonidae |
| Subfamily: | †Amphicyoninae |
| Genus: | †Cynelos Jourdan, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Amphicyon lemanensis | |
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Cynelos is a large extinct genus of bear dogs which inhabited North America, Europe, and Africa[1] from the Early Miocene subepoch to the Late Miocene subepoch 20.4—13.7 Mya, existing for approximately 6 million years.[2]
Species[]
- C. anubisi Morlo et al., 2019[1]
- C. caroniavorus White, 1942
- C. idoneus Matthew, 1924
- C. lemanensis Pomel, 1846
- C. malasi Hunt & Stepleton, 2015
- C. stenosHunt Jr. and Yatkola, 2020[3]
- C. sinapius Matthew, 1902
References[]
- ^ a b Morlo M., Miller E. R., Bastl K., AbdelGawad M. K., Hamdan M., El-Barkooky A. N. & Nagel D. 2019. — New Am-phicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Moghra, Early Miocene, Egypt, in Bonis L. de & Werdelin L. (eds), Memo-rial to Stéphane Peigné: Carnivores (Hyaenodonta and Carnivora) of the Cenozoic. Geodiversitas 41 (21): 731-745. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a21. http://geodiversitas.com/41/21
- ^ Cynelos at fossilworks
- ^ Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020.
- C. jituMorlo, 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. Geodiversitas 42 (5): 57-67.
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- Miocene mammals of North America
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