retractable to some extent. Like the viverrids, Proailurus was at least partially arboreal. Proailurus major is estimated to have been significantly larger...

during the Oligocene about 25 million years ago, with the appearance of Proailurus and Pseudaelurus. The latter species complex was ancestral to two main...

well as the extinct machairodonts (saber-tooths), and is a successor to Proailurus. It originated from Eurasia and was the first cat to reach North America...

Eocene or early Oligocene, looked similar to the modern fossa, while Proailurus, an extinct form of cat, exhibited many viverrid-like characteristics...

Proailurus lemanensis "Pseudaelurus" (grade)...

creatures is now accepted as being true members of Felidae and descended from Proailurus and Pseudaelurus. Within Felidae, they had been traditionally considered...

went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The earliest known felid genus is Proailurus, part of Proailurinae, which lived approximately 25 million years ago...

to 33 million years ago. There were other earlier cat-like species but Proailurus (meaning "before the cat"; also called "Leman's Dawn Cat"), which appeared...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

and presumably the basal genera of all cats, such as Pseudaelurus and Proailurus, use the throat clamp as a common method of dispatching prey. The suffocation...

theorized that Vinayakia represented an aberrant line descended from Proailurus, with V. sarcophaga ancestral to V. nocturna. He further considered Mellivorodon...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

and cattle appeared in the mid-Oligocene in Eurasia. The first felid, Proailurus, originated in Asia during the late Oligocene and spread to Europe. There...

Proailurus lemanensis...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

2011: The earliest felids are known from the Oligocene of Europe, such as Proailurus, and the earliest one with saber-tooth features is the Miocene genus Pseudaelurus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...

†Namafelis †Miopanthera †Pseudaelurus †Sivaelurus †Styriofelis †Proailurinae Proailurus Vinayakia Felinae Acinonyx Catopuma Caracal Felis Herpailurus Leopardus...