Sivaelurus
| Sivaelurus Temporal range: | |
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| The holotype of Sivaelurus chinjiensis as depicted by Pilgrim (1915). | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | †Sivaelurus Pilgrim, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| †Sivaelurus chinjiensis (Pilgrim, 1910) | |
| Map showing the location of the Chinji locality in Punjab, Pakistan. | |
| Synonyms | |
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S. chinjiensis
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Sivaelurus is a fossil genus of felid containing only a single species, S. chinjiensis, which was described based on a partial right maxilla collected from the Chinji Formation in the Lower Siwaliks. The species was originally described by Guy Ellcock Pilgrim as Pseudaelurus chinjiensis in 1910, who later erected a new genus, Sivaelurus, for it in 1913.