Stenailurus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | † Machairodontinae |
Tribe: | † Metailurini |
Genus: | † Stenailurus Crusafont-Pairo & Aguirre, 1972 |
Type species | |
Stenailurus teilhardi Crusafont-Pairo & Aguirre, 1972 |
Stenailurus is an extinct genus of metailurin machairodontine (saber-toothed) cat from the Late Miocene (the Turolian, specifically) of Spain. It contains a single species, Stenailurus teilhardi . It was described based on a piece of maxilla in 1972. [1]
The generic name Stenailurus honors Bl. Niels Steensen, considered the father of paleontology, combined with the Greek αἴλουρος/ailurus meaning "cat". The specific name teilhardi honors paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. [1]
Position of Stenailurus in Metailurini according to a 2018 phylogenetic analysis: [2]
Metailurini |
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