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  2. Nimravidae - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Dinofelis - Wikipedia

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    Dinofelis is an extinct genus of machairodontine (sabre-toothed cat), usually classified in the tribe Metailurini.It was widespread in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America from 5 million to about 1.2 million years ago (early Pliocene to early Pleistocene).

  4. Taowu liui - Wikipedia

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    The saber-toothed cats represent an ancient branch of cats, which according to molecular genetics studies, forms the sister group of today's big cats and small cats. Their separation from the common branch occurred about 20 million years ago in the Lower Miocene. [4] [5] [6] The feature that gave saber-toothed cats their name is their ...

  5. Nimravinae - Wikipedia

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    The Nimravinae are a subfamily of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats. They were endemic to North America , Europe , and Asia from the Middle Eocene through the Late Miocene epochs ( Bartonian through Tortonian stages, 40.4—7.2 mya ), spanning about 33.2 million years ...

  6. Dinictis - Wikipedia

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    Dinictis is a genus of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores, also known as "false saber-toothed cats". Assigned to the subfamily Nimravinae, Dinictis was endemic to North America from the Late Eocene to Early Miocene epochs (37.2—20.4 million years ago), existing for about 1]

  7. Well-preserved remains of saber-toothed kitten found frozen ...

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    Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra for about 37,000 years. ... A Smilodon Cat from prehistoric times is on ...

  8. Barbourofelidae - Wikipedia

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    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 3]

  9. Eusmilus - Wikipedia

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    Life reconstruction of E. adelos. Most Eusmilus species had a long body and were about as tall as a leopard, though the species E. adelos was similar in size to a small lion, and thus was the largest of the holplophonine nimravids, reaching the weight of nearly 111 kg [2] Eusmilus had developed long saber teeth and looked like a saber-toothed cat, but was actually a so-called 'false saber ...