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)...

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

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...