Cyrnaonyx
| Cyrnaonyx Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Genus: | †Cyrnaonyx Helbing, 1935 |
| Species: | †C. antiqua
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cyrnaonyx antiqua (de Blainville, 1841)
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Cyrnaonyx is an extinct
Weichselian
) of Europe: France, Germany, Netherlands, Southern England and probably Italy.
The dentition is more robust than in the common otter Lutra and the diet probably consisted of more crustaceans and less fish, like in modern Aonyx. The skull was however not arched as in the latter which points to a more aquatic, swimming behaviour.
Sources
- Malatesta, A. & Willemsen, G. F.: Algarolutra g.n. established for a fossil otter of the Sardinia island. Geologica Romana 25: 285-286 (1986)
- Willemsen, G. F.: A revision of the Pliocene and Quaternary Lutrinae from Europe. Scripta Geologica vol 101 (1992).