Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Felidae Rank Genus | Phylum Chordata Order Carnivora Species P. martini | |
Similar Adelphailurus, Felis attica, Nimravides, Lokotunjailurus, Metailurus | ||
Pratifelis martini is an extinct feline species that lived in North America during the late Miocene period. A jawbone from the animal was first discovered by H. T. Martin in Wallace County, Kansas, in 1911, and paleontologist Claude W. Hibbard documented it as a new species.
P. martini, a short-faced cat, was likely bigger than the modern cougar.
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