Cynelos

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.

Cynelos

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphicyoniniPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Amphicyonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 52 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 53 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18.5 Mya – 15.98 Mya30 Mya4.8 Mya

53 occurrences of Cynelos on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

53 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

20 formations

Olcott — 42.40°N, 103.80°WOlcott — 42.19°N, 103.73°WSheep Creek — 42.40°N, 103.80°WMarsland — 42.42°N, 103.87°WMarsland — 42.40°N, 103.80°WRunningwater — 41.70°N, 103.10°WRunningwater — 42.20°N, 103.10°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 37.66°N, 77.11°WAlachua — 29.70°N, 82.60°WSespe — 33.83°N, 117.71°WElisabeth Bay — 26.97°S, 15.33°EPawnee Creek — 40.80°N, 104.20°WBox Butte — 42.20°N, 103.10°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WBarstow — 34.80°N, 117.00°WTesuque — 35.50°N, 106.20°WLothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EManchar — 26.33°N, 67.83°EGaj — 26.87°N, 67.32°EChamtwara — 0.15°S, 35.26°ESables de l'Orleanais — 48.06°N, 2.05°EMascall — 44.50°N, 119.30°W

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The named rock units Cynelos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cynelos and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cynelos and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

792 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Cynelos, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

30 references

Each of the 53 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 18 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cynelos

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cynelos was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jourdan 1862