''Sivaelurus'' is an extinct genus of
felid
Felidae () is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats, and constitutes a clade. A member of this family is also called a felid (). The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to the dom ...
. The type and only species, ''S. chinjiensis'', was described based on a fragmentary fossil found in Asia. It was originally described as ''
Pseudaelurus
''Pseudaelurus'' is a prehistoric cat that lived in Europe, Asia and North America in the Miocene between approximately twenty and eight million years ago. It is considered to be a paraphyletic grade ancestral to living felines and pantherines a ...
chinjiensis'' in 1910, but was reassigned to a new genus in 1915.
A 2020 study of newfound material from the region suggested that the species ''
Miopanthera
''Miopanthera'' is an extinct genus of ''Pseudaelurus''-grade felids.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Miopanthera'' was first proposed in 1938 by Kretzoi for the species ''Pseudaelurus lorteti''. ''P. lorteti'' had previously been described as such in 1899 ...
lorteti'' be reassigned to this genus; it also described fragmentary material referable to ''Sivaelurus'' sp.
References
Prehistoric felids
Fossil taxa described in 1915
Prehistoric carnivoran genera
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