Asiavorator
Extinct genus of carnivores
Asiavorator
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | † Stenoplesictidae |
Genus: |
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Asiavorator
Spassov & Lange-Badré, 1995 |
Species: |
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A.
gracilis
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Binomial name | |
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Asiavorator gracilis
Matthew & Granger, 1924
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Asiavorator is an extinct genus of carnivorous , cat -like civet endemic to Asia in the Oligocene . [1]
The teeth of Asiavorator suggest that the beasts were omnivorous or more precisely, ranged from hypercarnivorous to mesocarnivorous . [2] [3]
Taxonomy
Asiavorator was named by Spassov and Lange-Badré (1995). It was assigned to Aeluroidea by Hunt (1998). [4] There is one known species, Asiavorator gracilis .
References
- ↑ Paleobiology Database: Asiavorator basic info.
- ↑ J. A. Lillegraven. 1979. Reproduction in Mesozoic mammals. In J. A. Lillegraven, Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and W. A. Clemens (eds.), Mesozoic Mammals: The First Two-Thirds of Mammalian History. University of California Press, Berkeley 259-276
- ↑ R. M. Nowak. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, Sixth Edition I:1–836
- ↑ R. M. Hunt. 1998. Evolution of the aeluroid Carnivora: diversity of the earliest aeluroids from Eurasia (Quercy, Hsanda-Gol) and the origin of felids. American Museum Novitates 3252:1–65
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