Felinae

The Felinae or small cats are a subfamily of the Felidae distinguished by a bony hyoid, because of which they can purr but not roar. Other authors have proposed an alternative definition for this subfamily, as comprising only the living conical-toothed cat genera, with two tribes, the Felini and Pantherini, and excluding the extinct sabre-toothed Machairodontinae.

Felinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FelidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Felidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 1128 occurrencesMiocene — about 73 of 1128 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 160 of 1128 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 800 of 1128 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 17 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 32 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 58 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 92 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 139 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 144 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 573 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

1,128 occurrences of Felinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,128 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

103 formations

Vogel River Series — 3.20°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ESopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.45°ERexroad — 37.20°N, 100.30°WRexroad — 37.13°N, 100.48°WUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EUnterer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°ETarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WGlenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.28°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°E'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EDursunlu — 38.28°N, 31.91°EZanda — 31.48°N, 79.80°EZanda — 31.67°N, 79.75°EBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.77°N, 101.28°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.48°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WTacubaya — 21.80°N, 102.30°WChapala — 20.30°N, 103.20°WYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°E

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The named rock units Felinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 863 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Felinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Felinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,231 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 723 sites for Felinae, and this reads 240 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

474 references

Each of the 1,128 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. 462 further references are not listed. 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

Picture of Felinae

Credit
User:The Rambling Man ; Ana_Cotta ; User:Schorle ; Malene Thyssen ; AskJoanne
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Felinae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Trouessart 1885