e/Cat gap

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has gloss	eng: The cat gap is a period in the fossil record of approximately 25 to 18.5 million years ago in which there are few fossils of cats or cat-like species found in North America. The cause of the "cat gap" is disputed, but may have been caused by changes in the climate (global cooling), changes in the habitat and environmental ecosystem, the increasingly hypercarnivorous trend of the cats (especially the nimravids), volcanic activity, evolutionary changes in dental morphology of the Canidae species present in North America, or possibly even attributed to patterns of periodicity of extinctions (climatic/floral cycles called "van der Hammen cycles" )
lexicalization	eng: Cat Gap
lexicalization	eng: Cat-gap
instance of	(noun) cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers family Felidae, Felidae

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