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—26.3 mya, existing for approximately 7 million years. Not closely related to true saber-toothed cats, they evolved a similar form through parallel evolution. Fossils have been uncovered in the western U.S. from Oregon to southern California and Nebraska.
N. brachyops skull with canines piercing the leg bone of another specimen
cats, rather than chasing them down. Nimravus competed with other false sabre-tooths such as Hoplophoneus. A Nimravus skull, found in North America, had...
American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1880, with the type genus as Nimravus. The family was assigned to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Caniformia by...
Megantereon). There is fossil evidence of conflict between Eusmilus and Nimravus, another genus of nimravid. Eusmilus cubs and adolescents have been discovered...
within the subfamily Nimravinae. Quercylurus was at one point classified as Nimravus intermedius major, and then classed within the Dinailurictis genus. More...
systems. In this environment, sympatric predators included the nimravids Nimravus and Eofelis, the entelodontid Entelodon, and the related stenoplesictid...
Hyaenodon, the stenoplesictids Shandgolictis and Asiavorator, the feliforms Nimravus and Palaeogale, the amphicynodontid Amphicynodon and the didymoconids Didymoconus...
Viverra leakeyi Family Stenoplesictidae Family Nimravidae (nimravids) Genus Nimravus Genus Eusmilus Genus Hoplophoneus to be sorted Genus Lokotunjailurus Paleocene–Recent...
primaevus (type) H. occidentalis H. strigidens H. cerebralis H. dakotensis H. oharrai H. sicarius †Nimravidae Eocene-Oligocene †Nimravus †Nimravidae...
sp. Eusmilus E. bidentatus Mustelictis M. cf. major M. aff. olivieri Nimravus N. intermedius Pachycynodon P. amphictina P. crassirostris P. cf. dubius...
systems. In this environment, sympatric predators included the nimravids Nimravus and Eofelis, the entelodontid Entelodon, and the related stenoplesictid...
Dzo localities. A hyaenodont. H. pumilus Mandibular ramus. A hyaenodont. Nimravus N. mongoliensis Khoer Dzhan locality. Jaw & limb elements. A nimravid....
France consisted of a left, upper canine noticeably larger than Eofelis, Nimravus, and Eusmilus. Subsequent remains consisting of limb bones and additional...
marginatus – type locality for species †Nicrophorus nigrita †Nimravides †Nimravus Niso – tentative report †Nitzschia Nodipecten †Nodipecten subnodosus Norrisia...