Malfelis is an extinct genus of carnivorous placental mammals from the extinct subfamily Oxyaeninae, within the extinct family Oxyaenidae. It is from western North America of early Bridgerian Land Mammal Age (Eocene). The type species, Malfelis badwaterensis, is the only known species of the genus.
Malfelis is an extinct genus of carnivorous placental mammals from the extinct subfamily Oxyaeninae, within the extinct family Oxyaenidae. It is from western North America of early Bridgerian Land Mammal Age (Eocene). The type species, Malfelis badwaterensis, is the only known species of the genus.
== Discovery and naming == The genus and species could first be described after a nearly complete juvenile skull, as well as a part of its dentary, was found in the Wind River Formation of Wyoming, North America. Here, it was found in situ in a horizon below the main fossil-bearing red mudstone layer. Malfelis is believed to be one of the largest animals from its type locality, where nearly 80 mammal species have been found.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).