Parailurus

Parailurus
Temporal range: early to late Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ailuridae
Subfamily: Ailurinae
Genus: †Parailurus
Schlosser, 1899
Species
  • †Parailurus sp. (Morlo & Kundrát, 2001)
  • †Parailurus hungaricus (Kormos, 1935)
  • †Parailurus anglicus (Dawkins, 1888)
  • †Parailurus baikalicus (Sotnikova, 2008)
  • †Parailurus sp. (Sasagawa et. al, 2003)
  • †Parailurus sp. (Tedford & Gustafson, 1977)

Parailurus is a genus of extinct carnivoran mammal in the family Ailuridae. Parailurus, which was about 50% larger than Ailurus (red panda), lived in the early to late Pliocene Epoch, and its fossils have been found in Europe, North America, and Japan.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Goswami, Anjali; Friscia, Anthony, eds. (July 2010). Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function. Cambridge University Press. p. 117-119. ISBN 978-0-521-51529-0.
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