 | This article possibly contains original research. (November 2023) |
| Simbakubwa Temporal range: early Miocene
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| reconstruction of Simbakubwa kutokaafrika | |
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| size comparison to human | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Hyainailouridae |
| Subfamily: | †Hyainailourinae |
| Genus: | †Simbakubwa Borths & Stevens, 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Simbakubwa kutokaafrika Borths & Stevens, 2019
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Simbakubwa ("great lion") is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts to the family Hyainailourinae that lived in Kenya during the early Miocene.[1]
- ^ Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2019). "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, 'Creodonta,' Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (1): e1570222. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E0222B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1570222. S2CID 145972918.