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Taxonomy
Proailurus was named by Filhol (1879) [authority data not certain].
It was assigned to Nimravidae by Cope (1880); to Aeluroidea by Hunt (1989); to Feloidea by de Bonis et al. (1999); and to Felidae by Carroll (1988), Morlo (1996), Hunt (1998) and Rothwell (2003).
It was assigned to Nimravidae by Cope (1880); to Aeluroidea by Hunt (1989); to Feloidea by de Bonis et al. (1999); and to Felidae by Carroll (1988), Morlo (1996), Hunt (1998) and Rothwell (2003).
Species
Synonymy list
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the MN 2 or 33.90000 to 20.00000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Oligocene | Mongolia | P. sp. (77772) | |
| MP 30 | France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) | P. lemanensis (179146) | |
| MN 2 | Spain (Zaragoza) | P. sp. (35750) | |
| MN 2 | Germany (R.-P. and Hesse) | P. lemanensis (69606) |