Magerictis is a fossil genus of ailurid with a single species Magerictis imperialenis (sometimes spelled Magerictis imperialis), which was originally known from a single m2 tooth. Several more specimens were later found, but were undescribed as of 2014.
Magerictis is a fossil genus of ailurid with a single species Magerictis imperialenis (sometimes spelled Magerictis imperialis), which was originally known from a single m2 tooth. Several more specimens were later found, but were undescribed as of 2014.
==Taxonomy & evolution== Magerictis is placed in the subfamily Ailurinae, though its relationship to other genera and species in that subfamily are still unknown. It is considered to have likely evolved from a species of Amphictis.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).