Sivaelurus
Extinct genus of carnivores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sivaelurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Genus: | †Sivaelurus Pilgrim, 1913 |
Type species | |
†Sivaelurus chinjiensis (Pilgrim, 1910) | |
Synonyms | |
S. chinjiensis
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Sivaelurus is a fossil genus of felid containing only a single species, S. chinjiensis, which was described based on a partial right maxilla collected from the Chinji Formation in the Lower Siwaliks. The species was originally described by Guy Ellcock Pilgrim as Pseudaelurus chinjiensis in 1910, who later erected a new genus, Sivaelurus, for it in 1913.