Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Full reference: O. Zdansky. 1924. Jungtertiare Carnivoren Chinas. Paleontologia Sinica, Series C II:1-149
Parent taxon: Metailurini according to A. Berta and H. Galiano 1983
See also Carroll 1988, Koufos 2012, Roussiakis and Theodorou 2003, Savage 1965, Slater and Van Valkenburgh 2008 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010
Sister taxa: Adelphailurus, Pontosmilus, Stenailurus, Therailurus, Yoshi
Subtaxa: Metailurus major Metailurus parvulus Metailurus ultimus
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Nebraska collection)
• Pliocene of China (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), China (4), Greece (5), Kenya (2), Moldova (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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