Everything about Proailurus totally explained
Proailurus was a prehistoric
carnivore that lived in Europe approximately 25 million years ago. A recent
phylogeny places it as a basal
feloid, the superfamily that includes
mongooses,
civets,
hyenas, and
cats; however, some sources show it as a
felid and a direct ancestor of cats.
Proailurus was a compact and small animal, just a little larger than the domestic cat, weighing about a slender 20 lb (9 kg). It had a long tail, large eyes and sharp claws and teeth, with similar proportions to the modern
viverrids. Like the vivverids, it was probably a tree-dweller..
A succesor of
Proailurus was
Pseudaelurus, which lived 20-10 million years ago and probably gave rise to the major felid lines, including the
machairodontines,
felines and
pantherines.
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