Parailurus anglicus

Parailurus anglicus is the type species of the extinct genus Parailurus, a red panda relative of the family Ailuridae that lived in the Pliocene, with fossils found in Europe, Asia and North America. William Boyd Dawkins first described it in 1888 as Ailurus anglicus from a battered, worn piece of lower jaw found in the Red Crag of East Anglia, and Max Schlosser moved it to the new genus Parailurus in 1899 after studying the teeth of a more complete specimen from Baróth-Köpecz. The Hungarian species Parailurus hungaricus is now treated as a junior synonym. The remains are fragmentary, but the animal is thought to have been about twice the size of a red panda, and its unusual teeth suggest an omnivorous diet.