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Taxonomy
Felis was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was assigned to Ferae by Linnaeus (1758); to Felina by Gray (1825); to Felini by Kurten (1968); to Felidae by Leidy (1873), Cope (1880), Mivart (1882), Ameghino (1902), Rovereto (1914), Schultz and Howard (1935), Carroll (1988), Geraads (1997) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010); and to Felinae by Hay (1902), Bjork (1970), Ginsburg (1977), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Berta (1983), Johnson et al. (2006) and Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser (2017).
It was assigned to Ferae by Linnaeus (1758); to Felina by Gray (1825); to Felini by Kurten (1968); to Felidae by Leidy (1873), Cope (1880), Mivart (1882), Ameghino (1902), Rovereto (1914), Schultz and Howard (1935), Carroll (1988), Geraads (1997) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010); and to Felinae by Hay (1902), Bjork (1970), Ginsburg (1977), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Berta (1983), Johnson et al. (2006) and Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser (2017).
Species
F. antediluviana, F. arundivaza, F. bieti, F. borealis (syn. F. isabellina, F. maculata), F. catus, F. chaus, F. domesticus, F. gombaszoegensis, F. improcera, F. lunensis, F. lybica, F. margarita, F. maximus, F. nigripes, F. ocreata, F. pardoides, F. platensis, F. prisca, F. proplatensis, F. propuma, F. pumoides, F. rexroadensis, F. silvestris, F. toscana, F. youngi
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Felis Linnaeus p. 41 |
| 1825 | Felis Gray p. 339 |
| 1873 | Felis Leidy p. 315 |
| 1880 | Felis Cope p. 852 |
| 1882 | Felis Mivart p. 140 |
| 1902 | Felis Ameghino |
| 1902 | Felis Hay p. 782 |
| 1914 | Felis Rovereto p. 186 |
| 1935 | Felis Schultz and Howard p. 285 |
| 1968 | Felis Kurten p. 77 |
| 1970 | Felis Bjork p. 39 |
| 1977 | Felis Ginsburg p. 231 |
| 1980 | Felis Kurten and Anderson p. 194 |
| 1983 | Felis Berta p. 721 |
| 1988 | Felis Carroll |
| 1997 | Felis Geraads p. 145 |
| 2006 | Felis Johnson et al. p. 74 |
| 2010 | Felis Werdelin and Peigne p. 650 |
| 2017 | Felis Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser p. 11 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Felis Linnaeus 1758 [cat]
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†Felis antediluviana Kaup 1833
Felis arundivaza Hollister 1911
Felis bieti Milne-Edwards 1892 [Chinese mountain cat]
Felis borealis Thunberg 1798
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Invalid names: Felis isabellina Blyth 1847 [synonym], Felis maculata Horsfield and Vigors 1829 [synonym]
Felis catus Linnaeus 1758 [cat]
Felis chaus Schreber 1777 [jungle cat]
Felis domesticus Erxleben 1777 [domestic cat]
†Felis gombaszoegensis Kretzoi 1938
Felis improcera Phillips 1912
†Felis lunensis Martelli 1906
Felis lybica Forster 1780 [African wildcat]
Felis margarita Loche 1858 [sand cat]
†Felis maximus Scott and Osborn 1890
Felis nigripes Burchell 1824 [black-footed cat]
Felis ocreata Gmelin 1791
†Felis pardoides Owen 1846
†Felis platensis Ameghino 1889
†Felis prisca Kaup 1833
†Felis proplatensis Ameghino 1904
†Felis propuma Ameghino 1904
†Felis pumoides Castellanos 1958
†Felis rexroadensis Stephens 1959
†Felis silvestris lybica Forster 1780
†Felis toscana Schaub 1949
†Felis youngi Pei
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Barstovian to the top of the Holocene or 16.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma
Collections (175 total)
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Neogene | Taiwan (Tainan) | Felis sp. (76866) | |
| Neogene | Taiwan | Felis sp. (76865) | |
| MN 4 | France (Midi-Pyrénées) | Felis sp. (71873) | |
| Barstovian - Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | Felis maxima (230906) | |
| Astaracian | Morocco (Tadla-Azilal) | Felis sp. (48630) | |
| Tortonian | Moldova | Felis sp. (75802) | |
| Tortonian | China (Yunnan) | Felis sp. (11798) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Kenya | Felis sp. (230935) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Moldova (Tighina Departement) | Felis sp. (36139) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Aegean) | Felis neas (202120) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Turkey | Felis prisca (56563) | |
| Baodean | China (Yunnan) | Felis sp. (183982) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Felis rexroadensis (18577) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Oklahoma) | Felis rexroadensis (18076) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Felis rexroadensis (18573) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Nebraska) | Felis rexroadensis (18359) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian - Zanclean | USA (Florida) | Lynx rexroadensis (18535) | |
| Turolian | Afghanistan | Felis sp. (75492) | |
| Turolian | Spain (Valencia) | Felis christoli (40758) | |
| Turolian | China (Yunnan) | Felis sp. (44223) | |