Tchadailurus
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Tchadailurus is a genus of machairodontine felid from the late Miocene of Chad, Africa.
==Etymology== The genus name Tchadailurus comes from Chad, the country where the original fossils were found, and the Greek -ailurus, which means cat. The species name adei comes from the word for "small" in Goran, a local language.
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