Afrosmilus is a fossil genus of afrosmilin barbourofelid. It lived in Africa during the middle Miocene.
| Afrosmilus Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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| Restoration of Hyainailouros sulzeri (far left), Cynelos eurydon, Afrosmilus africanus and Hyainailouros napakensis (far right) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | †Barbourofelidae |
| Tribe: | †Afrosmilini |
| Genus: | †Afrosmilus Kretzoi, 1929 |
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| †Afrosmilus africanus (Andrews, 1914)
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Taxonomy and evolution
editThe 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 2001, 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
edit- ^ 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. (March 2001). "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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