Afrosmilus
Afrosmilus is a fossil genus of afrosmilin barbourofelid.
| Afrosmilus Temporal range: Middle Miocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | †Barbourofelidae |
| Tribe: | †Afrosmilini |
| Genus: | †Afrosmilus Kretzoi, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| †Afrosmilus africanus (Andrews, 1914) | |
| Species | |
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Taxonomy & evolution
The species Pseudaelurus africanus was first described in 1914;[1] in 1929 it was assigned to the new genus Afrosmilus by Miklós Kretzoi.[2]
A second species Afrosmilus turkanae was described in 1987.[3]
In 2007, a third species, Afrosmilus hispanicus, was described along with the closely related genus Ginsburgsmilus; for these earlier African barbourofelines the tribe Afrosmilini was erected.[4]
References
- Andrews, C.W. (1914). "On the Lower Miocene Vertebrates from British East Africa, collected by Dr. Felix Oswald". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 70: 179.
- Kretzoi, M. (1929). "Materialen zur phylogenetischen Klassification der Aeluroideen". Comptes Rendus, 10th International Zoological Congress: 1293–1355.
- Schmidt-Kittler, N. (1987). "The Carnivora (Fissipedia) from the Lower Miocene of East Africa". Palaeontographica A. 197: 85–126.
- Morales, J.; Salesa, M.J.; et al. (July 2007). "A new tribe, new genus and two new species of Barbourofelinae (Felidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of East Africa and Spain". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 92 (1): 97–102. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000067. S2CID 85704378.
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