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Nimravides is a genus of extinct saber-toothed cats that lived in North America during the Late Miocene, between 10.3 and 5.332 Ma. [1] Despite its scientific name, Nimravides does not belong to the Nimravidae , but is a true cat belonging to the family Felidae .
Nimravidae is an extinct family of carnivorans, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats, whose fossils are found in North America and Eurasia.Not considered to belong to the true cats (family Felidae), the nimravids are generally considered closely related and classified as a distinct family in the suborder Feliformia.
Nimravus is an extinct genus of "false" saber-toothed cat that lived in North America, Asia and Europe during the late Eocene and Oligocene epochs 35.3—26.3 mya, [1] existing for approximately .
Nimravides; Nimravus brachyops (misspelled as "N. brachiops") Notharctus tenebrosus; Nothrotheriops shastensis; Nyanzachoerus; Nyctereutes donnezani; Orohippus agilis; Orycteropus afer (mentioned) Pachycrocuta brevirostris; Pakicetus attocki; Palaeochiropteryx; Palaeoloxodon recki (identified by its synonym Elephas recki) Palaeotherium magnum ...
Machairodus (from Greek: μαχαίρα machaíra, 'knife' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') [2] is a genus of large machairodont or ''saber-toothed cat'' that lived in Africa, Eurasia and North America during the Late Miocene, from 12.5 million to 5.5 million years ago.
Miomachairodus is an extinct genus of large machairodontine (saber-toothed cat) containing only a single species, Miomachairodus pseudailuroides.It is mainly known from Middle Miocene-age fossils in Turkey and persisted until the early Late Miocene (). [1]
Front limb. There was marked sexual dimorphism in A. giganteus, with males being much larger than females. [16]The species Amphimachairodus coloradensis, from the United States was a significantly large animal, about 1.2 m (3.9 ft) at the shoulder, according to skeletal and life reconstructions, potentially making it one of the largest known felids. [17]
Barbourofelis loveorum's environment in the Love Bone Beds deposits (of Clarendonian Age) was a mixture of grassland, riverine forest, and marshes, in which it would have shared territory with herbivorous animals like the amphibious rhinoceros Teleoceras, the protoceratid Synthetoceras, the camel Aepycamelus, horses like Neohipparion and ...