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. Fossils have been dated from the Middle Eocene through the Late Miocene epochs (Bartonian through Tortonian stages, 40.4–7.2 million years ago), spanning about 33.2 million years.[3]
The barbourofelids, which were formerly classified as a subfamily of the Nimravidae, were reassigned to their own distinct family Barbourofelidae in 2004.[4] However, some recent (2020) studies suggest the barbourofelids are a branch of the nimravids, suggesting that this debate might not be settled yet.[5]
^Poust, Ashley W.; Barrett, Paul Z.; Tomiya, Susumu (2022). "An early nimravid from California and the rise of hypercarnivorous mammals after the middle Eocene climatic optimum". Biology Letters. 18 (10): 20220291. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2022.0291. hdl:2433/276689. S2CID 252818430.
^Barrett, Paul Zachary (2021-10-26). "The largest hoplophonine and a complex new hypothesis of nimravid evolution". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 21078. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-00521-1. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8548586. PMID 34702935.
^Nimravidae in the Paleobiology Database
^Morlo, Michael; Peigné, Stéphane; Nagel, Doris (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.
^Wang, Xiaoming; White, Stuart C.; Guan, Jian (2 May 2020). "A new genus and species of sabretooth, Oriensmilus liupanensis (Barbourofelinae, Nimravidae, Carnivora), from the middle Miocene of China suggests barbourofelines are nimravids, not felids". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (9): 783–803. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1691066. S2CID 211545222.
Nimravidae is an extinct family of carnivorans, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats, whose fossils are found in North America and Eurasia. Not...
their relationship with extant feliforms (with the most problematic being Nimravidae). All extant feliforms share a common attribute: their auditory bullae...
the Nimravidae and Machairodontinae, which had all attained elongated canines, recent research argues that it may be a subfamily of the Nimravidae, extending...
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...
1-698 H. N. Bryant. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the Nimravidae (Carnivora). Journal of Mammalogy 72(1):56-78 Paleontology portal...
Pleistocene. The "false saber-toothed cats", the Barbourofelidae and Nimravidae, are not true cats but are closely related. Together with the Felidae...
families Nimravidae and Barbourofelidae, respectively. Although not "true cats" of the family Felidae, they are closely related to felids. The Nimravidae are...
"murder" (phonos), "weapon" (hoplo)) is an extinct genus of the family Nimravidae, endemic to North America during the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene epochs...
Stephane Peigné; Louis De Bonis (August 2003). "Juvenile cranial anatomy of Nimravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora): biological and phylogenetic implications". Zoological...
Nimravus is an extinct genus of "false" saber-toothed cat in the family Nimravidae known from North America and Europe during the Oligocene epoch 33.3—26...
332 Ma. Despite its scientific name, Nimravides does not belong to the Nimravidae, but is a true cat belonging to the family Felidae. The genus Nimravides...
The Nimravinae are a subfamily of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats. They...
are found only in certain species of the Viverridae (and the extinct Nimravidae). A claw that is retractable is protected from wear and tear. Most cats...
European Nimravinae (Mammalia, Carnivora, Nimravidae) and the phylogenetic relationships of Palaeogene Nimravidae". Zoologica Scripta. 32 (3): 199–229. doi:10...
1–271. Peigné, Stéphane (2000). "A new species of Eofelis (Carnivora: Nimravidae) from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie...
was previously thought to belong to the false sabre-toothed cat family Nimravidae. It lived during Middle and Upper Miocene in Europe, Asia, and North America...
and Jeff Person (2010). "Tooth puncture marks on a skull of Dinictis (Nimravidae) from the Oligocene Brule Formation of Northe Dakota attributed to predation...
equivalent Zulfiqar, the sword of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Barbourofelidae, and Nimravidae, feliforms of which some members are called "sabre-toothed cats" Machairodontinae...
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