Stenailurus

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Stenailurus
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Turolian)
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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]

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Discovery and naming

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]

Classification

Position of Stenailurus in Metailurini according to a 2018 phylogenetic analysis: [2]

Metailurini

Fortunictis acerensis

Adelphailurus kansensis

Stenailurus teilhardi

Metailurus mongoliensis

Metailurus hengduanshanensis

Metailurus obscurus

Metailurus major

Yoshi minor

Yoshi garevskii

Dinofelis

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References

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