Cynelos

Cynelos is a large extinct genus of bear dogs which inhabited North America and Europe from the Early Miocene subepoch to the Late Miocene subepoch 20.4—13.7 Mya, existing for approximately 6 million years.[1]

Cynelos
Temporal range: 20.4–13.7 Ma
Early Miocene - Late Miocene
C. lemanensis skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: †Amphicyonidae
Subfamily: †Amphicyoninae
Genus: †Cynelos
Jourdan, 1862
Type species
Amphicyon lemanensis
Species

See text

Species
  • C. anubisi Morlo et al., 2019[2]
  • 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
  1. Cynelos at fossilworks
  2. 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
  3. Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020. 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. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a5. http://geodiversitas.com/42/5


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