Cynelos

Cynelos; Temporal range: 20.4–13.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Miocene - Late Miocene
	C. lemanensis skull
	Restoration of Hyainailouros sulzeri (far left), Cynelos eurydon, Afrosmilus africanus and Hyainailouros napakensis (far right)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	†Amphicyonidae
Subfamily:	†Amphicyoninae
Genus:	†Cynelos; Jourdan, 1862
Type species
	†Amphicyon lemanensis;
Species
	See text

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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 6 million years.^[1]

Species

C. caroniavorus White, 1942
C. idoneus Matthew, 1924
C. lemanensis Pomel, 1846
C. malasi Hunt & Stepleton, 2015
C. stenos Hunt Jr. and Yatkola, 2020^[2]
C. jitu Morlo, 2021^[3]
C. sinapius Matthew, 1902

References

^ Cynelos at fossilworks
^ Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020.
^ Morla (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. Vol. 42. pp. 57–67. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a5. S2CID 212688503. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

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[1] Cynelos at fossilworks

[2] Hunt R. M. Jr & Yatkola D. A. 2020.

[3] Morla (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. Vol. 42. pp. 57–67. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a5. S2CID 212688503. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

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