Quercylurus

Taxobox
name = "Quercylurus"
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status = Fossil


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = †Nimravidae
subfamilia = †Nimravinae
genus = "Quercylurus"
species = "Q. major"
binomial = Quercylurus major
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"Quercylurus" is a genus of a Nimravidae family "false sabre-tooths" belonging to subfamily Nimravinae, which lived during Late Oligocene in Europe. It was probably the largest nimravid ever known. Quercylurus was the same size as a today's brown bear. It was very muscular, walked on plantigrade (flat-footed). There is only one known specimen of this genus - Quercylurus major.