Cynodictis ("slender dog marten") is an extinct amphicyonid carnivoran which inhabited Eurasia from the Late Eocene subepoch to the Early Oligocene subepoch living from 37.2 to 28.4 million years ago, existing for approximately .
Cynodictis ("slender dog marten") is an extinct amphicyonid carnivoran which inhabited Eurasia from the Late Eocene subepoch to the Early Oligocene subepoch living from 37.2 to 28.4 million years ago, existing for approximately .
==Anatomy== Cynodictis had a long muzzle and a low-slung body. It had carnassial teeth for slicing chunks of meat off carcasses. It was about 30 cm at the shoulder. The species C. lacustris was a fox-like animal that weighed approximately 10 kg. A study comparing the astragali and calcanei of different amphicyonids found C. lacustris to be a digitigrade animal.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).