Pakakali
Extinct genus of mammal
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Pakakali ("fierce cat") is an extinct genus of hyainailourid hyaenodont mammal of the subfamily Hyainailourinae, that lived in what is now Tanzania during the Late Oligocene. It is known from a single species, P. rukwaensis.[1]
| Pakakali Temporal range: Late Oligocene | |
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| Pakakali rukwaensis lower jaw fragment | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Hyainailouridae |
| Subfamily: | †Hyainailourinae |
| Genus: | †Pakakali Borths & Stevens, 2017 |
| Type species | |
| †Pakakali rukwaensis Borths & Stevens, 2017 | |