Ginsburgsmilus
{{Short description|Extinct species of carnivore}}
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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Miocene}}
| genus = Ginsburgsmilus
| parent_authority = Morales, Salesa, Pickford, & Soria 2001
| species = napakensis
| authority = Morales, Salesa, Pickford, & Soria 2001
}}
Ginsburgsmilus is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal of the family Barbourofelidae that was endemic to Africa during the early Miocene. There is only one known specimen of Ginsburgsmilus napakensis,{{Cite web |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=104046 |title=PaleoBiology Database: Ginsburgsmilus, basic info |access-date=2009-08-08 |archive-date=2012-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013062353/http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=104046&is_real_user=1 |url-status=live }} dated to 20-19 mya.
Taxonomy
Ginsburgsmilus was named by Morales et al. (2001).{{cite journal|last=Morales|first=J.|author2=Salesa, M. J. |author3=Pickford, M. |author4= Soria, D. |title=A new tribe, new genus and two new species of Barbourofelinae (Felidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of East Africa and Spain|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences|year=2001|volume=92|issue=1|pages=97–102|doi=10.1017/S0263593300000067|s2cid=85704378 }} It was assigned to Barbourofelidae by Morlo et al. (2004) and Morlo (2006).{{cite journal |last=Morlo |first=Michael |author2=Stéphane Peigné |author3=Doris Nagel |year=2004 |title=A new species of Prosansanosmilus: implications for the systematic relationships of the family Barbourofelidae new rank (Carnivora, Mammalia) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=140 |issue=1 |pages=52 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00087.x |doi-access=free }}
In 2001, a team led by Jorge Morales described Ginsburgsmilus as a new genus in the family Barbourofelidae; the fossil material had been previously identified as Afrosmilus turkanae.
References
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{{Barbourofelidae}}
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Category:Miocene mammals of Africa
Category:Monotypic prehistoric carnivoran genera
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