Cynelos

{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|20.4|13.7}}Early Miocene - Late Miocene

| image = Cynelos lemanensis.JPG

| image_caption = C. lemanensis skull

| image2 = Africa - the evolution of a continent and its large mammal fauna (2006) fig. 8.png

| image2_caption = Restoration of Hyainailouros sulzeri (far left), Cynelos eurydon, Afrosmilus africanus and Hyainailouros napakensis (far right)

| taxon = Cynelos

| authority = Jourdan, 1862

| type_species = †Amphicyon lemanensis

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms =

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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 {{Mya|20-14|million years}}.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41275 Cynelos at fossilworks]

Species

  • C. caroniavorus White, 1942
  • C. idoneus Matthew, 1924
  • C. lemanensis Pomel, 1846
  • C. malasi Hunt & Stepleton, 2015
  • C. stenos Hunt Jr. and Yatkola, 2020Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020.
  • C. jitu Morlo, 2021{{cite book |last1=Morla |date=2021 |editor1-last=Bonis |editor1-first=L. de |editor2-last=Werdelin |editor2-first=L. |title=Memorial to Stéphane Peigné: Carnivores (Hyaenodonta and Carnivora) of the Cenozoic |chapter=A new species of the amphicyonid carnivore Cynelos Jourdan, 1862 from the early Miocene of North America |chapter-url=http://geodiversitas.com/42/5 |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=42 |issue=5 |pages=57–67 |doi= 10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a5|s2cid= 212688503|access-date=}}
  • C. sinapius Matthew, 1902

References