Superfamily Feloidea Hay 1930 (carnivoran)

Mammalia - Carnivora

Parent taxon: Feliformia according to S. Tomiya 2011

See also Flynn and Galiano 1982 and Savage 1965

Sister taxa: Aeluroida, Aeluroidea, Alagtsavbaatar, Asiavorator, Didymictida, Nandiniidae, Nimravidae, Palaeogalidae

Subtaxa: Felidae Prionodontidae Stenogale Viretictis

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), Argentina (25), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (6), Brazil (29), Bulgaria (1), Canada (9: Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Yukon ), Chile (11), China (23), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (5), Egypt (3), El Salvador (2), Ethiopia (9), France (38), Georgia (6), Germany (14), Gibraltar (1), Greece (27), Guatemala (1), Honduras (1), Hungary (7), India (1), Indonesia (6), Israel (4), Italy (44), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (21), Libya (2), Madagascar (2), Mexico (10), Monaco (3), Mongolia (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (6), Niger (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Peru (10), Portugal (3), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (53), Spain (23), Sudan (7), Swaziland (1), Syria (1), Taiwan (2), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (9), Thailand (1), Turkey (4), the United Kingdom (10), United States (199: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming), Uruguay (9), Venezuela (3), Zambia (2)

• Blancan of Mexico (5), United States (97: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), Ethiopia (2), France (3), Greece (3), Hungary (3), Italy (3), Kenya (6), South Africa (6), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene of Argentina (3), Chad (1), China (4), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (9), France (3), Georgia (2), Greece (6), Hungary (8), India (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (3), Kenya (9), Libya (2), Moldova (4), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (7), Senegal (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (8), Spain (4), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (22), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), United States (3: California, Idaho, North Carolina)

• MN 13 of Moldova (1)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (10), United States (67: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)

• Baodean of China (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), China (3), Ethiopia (2), Greece (1), Kenya (4), Kyrgyzstan (1), South Africa (6), Tanzania (3), Turkey (1), Uganda (3), United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (1), Bulgaria (4), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Chad (2), China (20), the Czech Republic (1), Ethiopia (1), France (17), Germany (6), Greece (15), India (1), Iraq (1), Italy (5), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (12), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (1), Macedonia (1), Mexico (1), Moldova (5), Mongolia (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (20), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (2), Tunisia (1), Turkey (6), Ukraine (5), United States (77: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

• Neogene of Taiwan (2), Ukraine (2)

• Arikareean of United States (1: Montana)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)

• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Switzerland (1), United States (1: South Dakota)

Total: 1289 collections including 2006 occurrences

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