Biology:Parailurus
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Short description: Extinct genus of carnivores
| Parailurus Temporal range: early to late Pliocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ailuridae |
| Subfamily: | Ailurinae |
| Genus: | †Parailurus Schlosser, 1899 |
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| †P. anglicus (Dawkins, 1888)
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P. anglicus
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Parailurus is a genus of extinct carnivoran mammal in the family Ailuridae. It was about 50% larger than Ailurus (red panda) and lived in the early to late Pliocene Epoch, and its fossils have been found in Europe, North America, and Japan.[1][2]
The fossils of P. baikalicus carry low-crowned lower molars, along with the main cuspids of the cheek teeth being worn horizontally. This suggests P. baikalicus commonly ate leaves.[3]
A third species, Parailurus tedfordi, was described in 2022.[4]
References
- ↑ Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function. Cambridge University Press. July 2010. pp. 117–119. ISBN 978-0-521-51529-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=HPw0C2i8QXkC&pg=PA118.
- ↑ Fejfar, Oldřich; Sabol, Martin (April 2004). "Pliocene Carnivores (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Ivanovce and Hajnáčka (Slovakia)". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 246: 15–53. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279558711. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ↑ Ogino, Shintaro; Nakaya, Hideo; Takai, Masanaru; Fukuchi, Akira; Maschenko, Evgeny N.; Kalmykov, Nikolai P. (September 30, 2009). "Mandible and Lower Dentition of Parailurus baikalicus (Ailuridae, Carnivora) from Transbaikal area, Russia" (in en-US). Paleontological Research 13 (3): 259–264. doi:10.2517/1342-8144-13.3.259. ISSN 1342-8144. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2517/1342-8144-13.3.259.
- ↑ Wallace, Steven C.; Lyon, Lauren M. (2022). "Systematic revision of the Ailurinae (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ailuridae): With a new species from North America". Red Panda. pp. 31–52. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-823753-3.00011-9. ISBN 9780128237533.
Further reading
- Kundrát, Martin (2011). "Phenotypic and Geographic Diversity of the Lesser Panda Parailurus". Red Panda. pp. 61–87. doi:10.1016/B978-1-4377-7813-7.00005-7. ISBN 9781437778137.
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