Stenailurus
Sign in to saveStenailurus is an extinct genus of metailurin machairodontine (saber-toothed) cat from the Late Miocene (the Turolian, specifically) of Spain. It contains a single species, Stenailurus teilhardi . It was described based on a piece of maxilla in 1972.
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Stenailurus is an extinct genus of metailurin machairodontine (saber-toothed) cat from the Late Miocene (the Turolian, specifically) of Spain. It contains a single species, Stenailurus teilhardi . It was described based on a piece of maxilla in 1972.
==Discovery and naming== The generic name Stenailurus honors Bl. Niels Steensen, considered the father of paleontology, combined with the Greek / meaning "cat". The specific name teilhardi honors paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
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