Feliformia

Brown Hyena

The felids ( Feloidea, Feliformia or Aeluroidea ) are a belonging to the order Carnivora superfamily. They are the sister group of canids.

Features

Feline usually have shorter but stronger than the skull canids. Their canines are more developed, and reduce the number of rear molars.

System

The felids include the following families still living:

• Pardelroller ( Nandiniidae )
• Cats ( Felidae )
• Linsangs ( Prionodontidae )
• Civets ( Viverridae )
• Hyenas ( Hyanidae )
• Mongoose ( Herpestidae )
• Malagasy predators ( Eupleridae )

Three other families who Percrocutidae that Nimravidae and Barbourofelidae have become extinct in the Miocene and the Pliocene.

Phylogeny

The probable family relations shown in the following diagram:

Pardelroller ( Nandiniidae )

Cats ( Felidae )

Civets ( Viverridae )

Hyenas ( Hyanidae )

Mongoose ( Herpestidae )

Malagasy predators ( Eupleridae )

Phylogeny

Among the felids can the civets with the genus Pappictidopis from the Shanghuan lineup in China and the genera found in Canada Pristinictis and Ravenictis evidence already from the early Paleocene. Belonging to the felids is closed here, the reduction in the number of molars to two. The first real cat is about 30 million years old, ozelotgroße Proailurus, who lived in Europe in the Oligocene and early Miocene. Of the felids arrived in the late Miocene, only the cats that Nimravidae and Barbourofelidae North and South America. All other felids were confined to the Old World.