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Cladus: Eukaryota Prosansanosmilus is an extinct genus of mammalian carnivores of the suborder Feliformia, family Barbourofelidae, which lived in Europe during the Miocene epoch (16.9—16.0 mya), existing for approximately 0.9 million years.[2] Taxonomy Prosansanosmilus was named by Heizmann et al. (1980). Its type is Prosansanosmilus peregrinus. It was assigned to Nimravinae by Heizmann et al. (1980); to Felidae by Carroll (1988); to Barbourofelinae by Bryant (1991); and to Barbourofelidae by Morlo et al. (2004) and Morlo (2006).[3] A new species, P. eggeri from the Middle Eocene locality of Sandelzhausen, Germany, was described in 2004. It differed from other European barbourofelids in having a more plesiomorphic ("ancestral") morphology with less developed sabretoth adaptations and being smaller. The species is, however, stratigraphically younger than P. peregrinus, and probably part of the African faunal immigration into Europe during the Middle Eocene. [1] Morphology Like all barbourofelids, Prosansanosmilus was very muscular, short legged, and probably walked plantigrade (flat-footed). There are only two species of Prosansanosmilus, which lived in Spain, France, and Germany during the Late Miocene epoch. References ^ a b Morlo, Michael; Peigné, Stéphane; Nagel, Doris (2004). "A new species of Prosansanosmilus: implications for the systematic relationships of the family Barbourofelidae new rank (Carnivora, Mammalia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (140): 43–61. Source: Wikipedia, Wikispecies: All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License |
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