Barbourofelidae

Barbourofelidae
Temporal range: Miocene, 16.9–9 Ma
Barbourofelis loveorum at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Barbourofelidae
Schultz, et al., 1970[1]
Genera

Barbourofelidae is an extinct family of carnivorans of the suborder Feliformia, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats,[2] that lived in North America, Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene epoch (16.9—9.0 million years ago) and existed for about 7.9 million years.[3] Thought to be an independent lineage from the Nimravidae and Machairodontinae, which had all attained elongated canines, recent research argues that it may be a subfamily of the Nimravidae, extending its biochronological range into the Miocene, although this issue is not yet fully resolved.[4]

  1. ^ "Paleobiology Database (Barbourofelidae)". Retrieved 19 Oct 2012.
  2. ^ Alba, David; Fortuny, Josep; De Esteban-Trivigno, Soledad; Robles Gimenez, Jose; Almécija, Sergio (January 2012). "ENCEPHALIZATION AND BRAIN MORPHOLOGY IN EXTINCT, FALSE SABER-TOOTHED CATS (BARBOUROFELIDAE)". ResearchGate. 32 – via Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
  3. ^ Michale Morlo; Stéphane Peigné & Doris Nagel (January 2004). "A new species of Prosansanosmilus: implications for the systematic relationships of the family Barbourofelidae new rank (Carnivora, Mammalia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 140 (1): 43. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00087.x.
  4. ^ Barrett, Paul Z.; Hopkins, Samantha; Price, Samantha A. (2021). "How many sabertooths? Reevaluating the number of carnivoran sabertooth lineages with total-evidence Bayesian techniques and a novel origin of the Miocene Nimravidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (1). Bibcode:2021JVPal..41E3523B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1923523. S2CID 236221655.