Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Alternative combination: Felis proterolyncis
Full reference: D. E. Savage. 1941. Two New Middle Pliocene Carnivores from Oklahoma with Notes on the Optima Fauna. American Midland Naturalist 25(3):692-710
Belongs to Lynx according to L. Werdelin 1985
See also Savage 1941 and Seymour 1999
Sister taxa: Felis (Lynx) lybiensis, Felis (Lynx) montana, Felis (Lynx) nubiensis, Felis (Lynx) vulgaris, Lynx californicus, Lynx canadensis, Lynx issiodorensis, Lynx longignathus, Lynx lynx, Lynx pardinus, Lynx rufus, Lynx shansius, Lynx texensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Optima, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Ogallala Formation of Oklahoma
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (2: Oklahoma, Texas collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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