Aeluroidea
Aeluroidea is an extant clade of feline-like carnivores that are, or were, endemic to North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. They appeared during the Oligocene about 33.3 million years ago.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Clade: | Aeluroidea |
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Taxonomy
Aeluroidea was named by Flower (1869). It was assigned to Carnivora by Flower (1883) and Carroll (1988); and to Feliformia by Bryant (1991).[2][3][4]
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References
- Paleobiology Database: Aeluroidea basic info.
- W. H. Flower. 1883. On the arrangement of the Orders and Families of existing Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883:178-186
- R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York 1-698
- H. N. Bryant. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the Nimravidae (Carnivora). Journal of Mammalogy 72(1):56-78
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