Sivapanthera
Sivapanthera is a fossil cat genus that was proposed by Miklós Kretzoi in 1929.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | †Sivapanthera Kretzoi, 1929 |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Sivafelis Pilgrim, 1932 | |
Two species were assigned to the genus in 2004:
- Sivapanthera padhriensis from the Tertiary deposits in Pakistan's Sivalik Hills.[2]
- Sivapanthera linxiaensis from Early Pleistocene deposits in China's Dongxiang Autonomous County.[3]
References
- Kretzoi, M. (1929). "Materialien zur phylogenetischen Klassifikation der Ailuroïden". In Csiki, E. (ed.). Xe Congrès international de zoologie, tenu à Budapest du 4 au 10 septembre 1927. Volume 2. Budapest: Imprimerie Stephaneus. pp. 1293–1355.
- Ghaffar, A.; Akhtar, M. (2004). "A New Addition to the Siwalik Carnivora from the Tertiary Rocks of Pakistan" (PDF). Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences. 7 (3): 328–330.
- Qiu, Z.; Deng, T.; Wang, B. (2004). "Early Pleistocene Mammalian fauna from Longdan, Dongxiang, Gansu, China". Acta Palaeontol. Sinica 191: 1e198.
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