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 =
}}
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
{{Reflist}}
{{Amphicyonidae|A.|state=collapsed}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q3699888}}
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1862
Category:Miocene mammals of North America
Category:Miocene mammals of Europe
Category:Miocene mammals of Africa
Category:Miocene Amphicyonidae
Category:Prehistoric carnivoran genera
{{paleo-carnivora-stub}}