Cynelos
Name: Cynelos.
Phonetic: Sy-nel-oss.
Named By: Jourdan - 1862.
Synonyms: Absonodaphoenus, Amphicyon
amnicola, Amphicyon lemanensis, Hebucides, Hecubides, Parictis
bathygenus.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora,
Caniformia, Amphicyonidae.
Species: C. anubisi, C. caroniavarus,
C.
euryodon, C. lemanensis, C. idoneus, C. macrodon, C.stenos, C.
malasi, C.
sinapius.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Weight estimated around 80-85 kilograms.
Known locations: Across Africa, Eurasia and North
America.
Time period: Late Chattian of the Oligocene through
to the Tortonian of the Miocene.
Fossil representation: Multiple specimens.
Bear dogs can often be divided into North American and Eurasian genera, but Cynelos is one of the few genera that what active across both of these areas as well as Africa, a range proven by the discovery of multiple remains on all of these continents. Because Cynelos was a large Miocene era bear dog, there have been comparisons between it and other large forms such as Amphicyon, indeed, some previously named species of Amphicyon are now included within the Cynelos genus.
Further reading
- New canidae from the Miocene of Colorado. Bulletin of the American
Museum of Natural History 16(21):281-290. - W. D. Matthew - 1902.
- Third contribution to the Snake Creek Fauna. - Bulletin of the
American Museum of Natural History 50:59-210. - W. D. Matthew - 1924.
- A Skull of the Immigrant Eurasian Beardog Cynelos
(Carnivora,
Amphicyonidae) from the Early Miocene of Southern California. - Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(1). - R. M. Hunt, Jr. & E.
Stepleton - 2015.
- New Am-phicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Moghra, Early Miocene,
Egypt, in Bonis L. de & Werdelin L. (eds), Memo-rial to
St�phane Peign�: Carnivores (Hyaenodonta and Carnivora) of the
Cenozoic. - Geodiversitas 41 (21): 731-745. - M. Morlo, E. R. Miller,
K. Bastl, M. K. AbdelGawad, M. Hamdan, A. L. El-Barkooky & D.
Nagel - 2019.
- 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 St�phane Peign�: Carnivores (Hyaenodonta and
Carnivora) of the Cenozoic. - Geodiversitas 42 (5): 57-67. - R. M. Hunt
& D. A. Yatkola - 2020.
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