Eofelis

Eofelis is an extinct genus of small nimravid. They were catlike creatures that evolved in parallel with true cats but are not a part of the true cat lineage and have left no living descendants. The genus was first described in 1938 by Miklos Kretzoi.

No picture of Eofelis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eofelis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NimravinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nimravidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Nimravidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya27.3 Mya38.2 Mya22.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Eofelis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

7 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Quercy Phosphorites — 44.27°N, 1.63°EErgilin Dzo — 43.73°N, 111.25°E

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The named rock units Eofelis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eofelis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Eofelis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eofelis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Eofelis edwardsii · NHMUK:PAL:PV M 9633

No picture of Eofelis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eofelis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNimravinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1938