Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Suborder Feliformia Rank Genus | Phylum Chordata Order Carnivora Superfamily Aeluroidea | |
Similar Stenoplesictis, Proailurus lemanensis, Nimravidae, Nimravus, Feliformia | ||
Asiavorator is an extinct genus of carnivorous, cat-like civet endemic to Asia in the Oligocene.
The teeth of Asiavorator suggest that the beasts were omnivorous or more precisely, ranged from hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous.
Taxonomy
Asiavorator was named by Spassov and Lange-Badré (1995). It was assigned to Aeluroidea by Hunt (1998).
References
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