Nimravides
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| Nimravides Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Late Miocene | |
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| Nimravides catacopis skull | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Superfamily: | Feloidea |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | †Machairodontinae |
| Tribe: | †Homotherini |
| Genus: | †Nimravides Kitts 1958 |
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†Nimravides catacopsis | |
Nimravides is a genus of extinct saber-toothed felids that lived in North America during the middle and late Miocene, between 13.6 and 4.9 Ma.[1] Despite its scientific name Nimravides does not belong to the Nimravidae, but is a true felid, belonging to the family Felidae.[2]
The earlier species of the genus, like Nimravides pedionomus from Clarendonian deposits are smaller and more primitive than later forms, like Nimravides catacopsis. The tiger-sized Nimravides catacopsis strongly resembles the primitive Machairodus aphanistus, a species known from the Late Miocene of Eurasia.[3]
References
- ↑ Paleobiology Database: Nimravides
- ↑ Larry D.Martin: Felidae in Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, Ungulatelike Mammals, Cambridge University Press, 1998
- ↑ Turner, Alan (1997). The Big Cats and their fossil relatives. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-231-10228-3.
- Nimravides catacopis
- Nimravides galiani
- Nimravides thinobates
- Nimravides hibbardi
- Nimravides pedionomus
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