Felis attica is an extinct cat, of which the first fossil skull was excavated near Pikermi in Attica, Greece.Fossils were also excavated near the Moldovan city of Taraclia.It was also discovered in Maragheh, northwestern Iran. F. attica was bigger in body size than a European wildcat but probably smaller than a serval. Due to size differences, it was proposed as type species for the genus Pristifelis proposed in 2012.
Around 12 million years ago, the genus Felis evolved and eventually gave rise to many of the modern small cat species. Felis attica was a small lynx-like cat and one of the ancestors of the first modern Felis species, such as F. lunensis, which evolved around 2.5 million years ago during the Pliocene epoch.
