New Miocene Carnivora (Mammalia) from Moruorot and Kalodirr, Kenya

Abstract

We describe new carnivoran fossils from Kalodirr and Moruorot, two late Early Miocene sites in the Lothidok Formation of West Turkana, Kenya. The fossils include a new species of viverrid, Kichechia savagei sp. nov., a new genus and species of felid, Katifelis nightingalei gen. et sp. nov., and an unidentified musteloid. We also report new records of the amphicyonid Cynelos macrodon. These new fossils increase the known diversity of African Early Miocene carnivorans and highlight regional differences in Africa.

New Amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Moghra, Early Miocene, Egypt

“…4), Cynelos euryodon (Savage, 1965), Cynelos ginsburgi (Morales, Pickford, Soria & Fraile, 1998) n. comb., Cynelos macrodon (Savage, 1965), Cynelos minor (Morales & Pickford, 2008) Morales & Pickford 2005, 2008Morlo et al 2007;Morales et al 1998Morales et al , 2003Morales et al , 2008Morales et al , 2010Adrian et al 2018), with overviews given in Werdelin & Peigné 2010and Morales et al (2016). Savage (1965) described two amphicyonids, a small species, Hecubides euryodon Savage, 1965 from Napak-I in Uganda, and a large one, Hecubides macrodon Savage, 1965, from Rusinga Island, Kenya.…”

“…Savage (1965) described two amphicyonids, a small species, Hecubides euryodon Savage, 1965 from Napak-I in Uganda, and a large one, Hecubides macrodon Savage, 1965, from Rusinga Island, Kenya. Hecubides Savage, 1965 was later included in Cynelos (Ginsburg 1980), a decision followed by nearly all researchers (e.g., Schmidt-Kittler 1987;Morales et al 1998;Pickford et al 2003;Peigné & Heizmann 2003;Peigné et al 2006a, b;Morlo et al 2007;Werdelin & Simpson 2009;Werdelin & Peigné 2010;Leakey et al 2011;Hunt & Stepleton 2015;Jiangzuo et al 2018;Adrian et al 2018). One exception to this is the work of Morales and colleagues (Morales & Pickford 2005;Morales et al 2007Morales et al , 2008Morales et al , 2010Morales et al , 2016, who emphasized differences between H. euryodon and the type species of Cynelos, C. lemanensis (Morales et al 2016).…”

“…In Africa, amphicyonids are present throughout the Miocene, although the large to very large taxa are best known from the Early Miocene, mostly corresponding to European MN 3-4. These are: 1) Cynelos (synonym of Hecubides) (Morlo et al 2007;Werdelin & Peigné 2010;Leakey et al 2011;Adrian et al 2018); 2) Amphicyon giganteus (Schinz, 1825) (Morales et al 2003); and 3) Afrocyon burolleti Arambourg, 1961(Morales et al 2010, 2016. Morlo et al (2007) referred four large isolated teeth from Moghra to Cynelos sp.…”

“…sp." (Morales et al 2016) or Cynelos macrodon (Savage, 1965) (Adrian et al 2018). Here we review the morphology of these specimens and demonstrate that they belong to two different taxa, Cynelos and Amphicyon Lartet in Michelin, 1836.…”

The Late Middle Miocene Mae Moh Basin of Northern Thailand: The Richest Neogene Assemblage of Carnivora from Southeast Asia and a Paleobiogeographic Analysis of Miocene Asian Carnivorans

“…sp., and selected viverrids including fossil paradoxurines (in mm). Personal measurements and from *Pilgrim, 1932, Savage, 1965, 'Prasad, 1968, 'Petter, 1973, 'Morales et al, 2001, 'Qiu, 2004, *Morlo et al, 2007, 'Morales and Ginsburg, 2008, !Morales and Pickford, 2011, 'Adrian et al, 2018, 'Werdelin and Lewis, 2013, ™Werdelin, 2019 of the distal basined shelf. This pillar is more developed on p4 and becomes an incipient metaconid.…”