Protursus
{{short description|Extinct genus of ailurid}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Late Miocene
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| taxon = Protursus
| authority = Crusafont and Kurtén, 1976
| type_species = {{extinct}}Protursus simpsoni
| type_species_authority = Crusafont and Kurtén, 1976
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|synonyms =
- Simocyon simpsoni
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Protursus is a fossil genus of ailurid with a single species Protursus simpsoni, known from a single left m2 tooth.{{Cite book |chapter=Molecular and morphological evidence for Ailuridae and a review of its genera |title=Carnivoran Evolution |year=2010 |last1=Morlo |first1=Michael |last2=Peigné |first2=Stéphane |pages=121 |doi=10.1017/CBO9781139193436.005 |isbn=9780521515290}}
Taxonomy & Evolution
Protursus simpsoni was believed to be an ursid (bear) closely related to Ursavus by its original describers. In 1977, Thenius lumped the species into the genus Simocyon as Simocyon simpsoni, but this was rejected in 2005, instead being split back into Protursus, though as a member of the subfamily Simocyoninae.{{cite journal |last1=Crusafont |first1=M. |last2=Kurtén |first2=B. |date=1976 |title=Bears and bear−dogs from the Vallesian of the Vallés−Penedés Basin, Spain|url= |journal=Acta Zoologica Fennica |volume=144 |issue= |pages=1–29 |doi= |access-date=|isbn=95-1-661-013-7|issn=0001-7299}}{{cite journal |last=Thenius |first=E. |date=1977 |title=ZUR SYSTEMATISCHEN STELLUNG VON PROTURSUS (CARNIVORA, MAMMALIA) |trans-title= |url= |language=German |journal=Oesterr. Akad. Wissensch., Math.-Naturwissensch. Kl., Anzeiger; Aut; Da. |volume=114 |issue=3 |pages=37–41 |doi= |access-date=}}{{cite journal |last1=Peigné |first1=S. |last2=Salesa |first2=M. J. |last3=Antón|first3=M.|last4=Morales |first4=J. |date=2005 |title=Ailurid carnivoran mammal Simocyon from the late Miocene of Spain and the systematics of the genus |url=http://app.pan.pl/acta50/app50−219.pdf |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=229–230 |doi= |access-date=}}
Description
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Category:Monotypic prehistoric carnivoran genera
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1976
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