Pangurban

Pangurban
Temporal range: Late Eocene 40–37 Ma
Premolar teeth of Pangurban holotype in occlusal view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Nimravidae
Genus: Pangurban
Poust et al., 2022
Species
  • P. egiae (Poust et al., 2022)

Pangurban is an extinct genus of the family Nimravidae (the false saber-toothed cats), endemic to North America during the Eocene epoch (40–37 mya).[1] It contains a single species, Pangurban egiae. Occurring several million years before other named nimravids in North America, the discovery of this species suggests that hypercarnivores evolved and spread quickly after the warm middle Eocene.

  1. ^ Poust, Ashley; Barrett, Paul Z.; Tomiya, Susumu (2022). "An early nimravid from California and the rise of hypercarnivorous mammals after the middle Eocene climatic optimum". Biology Letters. 18 (10): 333–347. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2022.0291. hdl:2433/276689. S2CID 252818430.