Pristinailurus bristoli

Pristinailurus bristoli is an extinct red panda relative, a fossil species of the carnivoran family Ailuridae that was described by Wallace and Wang in 2004. It is well represented in the Hemphillian aged deposits of the Gray Fossil Site at Gray, Tennessee. The animal was significantly larger than the living red panda, Ailurus, but probably had a comparatively weaker bite. Males appear to have been up to twice the size of females, so the species was strongly sexually dimorphic. Its anatomy suggests that it was adapted to terrestrial and some arboreal locomotion and had a generalist diet. The Paleobiology Database dates the species to between about 9.4 and 1.4 million years ago and records it as an extinct, terrestrial animal.