Ginsburgsmilus

Ginsburgsmilus
Temporal range: Miocene
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: †Barbourofelidae
Genus: †Ginsburgsmilus
(J. Morales et al., 2001)[1]
Species

†Ginsburgsmilus napakensis

Ginsburgsmilus is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal of the family Barbourofelidae (false saber-tooth cats) endemic to Africa during the early Miocene. There is only one known specimen of Ginsburgsmilus napakensis[2], dated to 20-19 mya.

Taxonomy

Ginsburgsmilus was named by Morales et al. (2001). It was assigned to Barbourofelidae by Morlo et al. (2004) and Morlo (2006).[3]

A team led by Jorge Morales described Ginsburgsmilus as a new genus in the Barbourofelidae family in 2001 from fossil material previously identified as Afrosmilus turkanae.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Morlo, Michael; Stéphane Peigné, Doris Nagel (2004). "A new species of Prosansanosmilus: implications for the systematic relationships of the family Barbourofelidae new rank (Carnivora, Mammalia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140 (1): 52. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kfq/downloads_Nagel/Prosansanosmilus.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-28. 
  2. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Ginsburgsmilus, basic info
  3. ^ M. Morlo, S. Peigné, and D. Nagel. 2004. A new species of Prosansanosmilus: implications for the systematic relationships of the family Barbourofelidae new rank (Carnivora, Mammalia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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