| Eusmilus Temporal range: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene,
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| Skull cast of Eusmilus olsontau at the American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | †Nimravidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hoplophoninae |
| Genus: | †Eusmilus |
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| Eusmilus bidentatus (Filhol, 1873)
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†E. bidentatus (Filhol, 1873) (type) | |
Eusmilus ('true sabre') is a prehistoric genus of nimravid that lived in Europe and North America during the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene epochs (37.2–28.4 mya).[1]
- ^ Barrett, P.Z. (2016). "Taxonomic and systematic revisions to the North American Nimravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)". PeerJ. 4: e1658. doi:10.7717/peerj.1658. PMC 4756750. PMID 26893959.