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Eofelis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
†Nimravidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Mammalia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivores

Similar
  
Quercylurus, Carnivores, Dinaelurus, Pogonodon, Prosansanosmilus

Sunda clouded leopard neofelis diardi


Eofelis is an extinct genus of small nimravid (false saber-toothed cats). They were catlike creatures that evolved in parallel with true cats but are not a part of the true cat lineage and have left no living descendants.

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Fossils have been found in the phosphorites of Quercy, France. It was recently determined that there were two distinct species of Eofelis from old collections, E. edwardsii being the most abundant.

E. giganteus was very large, almost twice the size of E. edwardsii.

May madness 2016 p ij t h me panthers neofelis 3


References

Eofelis Wikipedia