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| Dinictis skeleton from South Dakota, displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Superfamily: | † Nimravoidea |
| Family: | † Nimravidae |
| Subfamily: | †
Nimravinae Cope, 1880 |
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Dinictis | |
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. [1] Centered in North America, the radiation of the Nimravinae from the Eocene to Oligocene was the first radiation of cat-like carnivorans. [2]
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Nimravinae, basic info
- ^ Bryant, Harold N. (1996). "Nimravidae". In Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry (ed.). The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 468. ISBN 0521433878.
| Nimravinae Temporal range:
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| Dinictis skeleton from South Dakota, displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Superfamily: | † Nimravoidea |
| Family: | † Nimravidae |
| Subfamily: | †
Nimravinae Cope, 1880 |
| Genera | |
|
†
Dinictis | |
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. [1] Centered in North America, the radiation of the Nimravinae from the Eocene to Oligocene was the first radiation of cat-like carnivorans. [2]
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Nimravinae, basic info
- ^ Bryant, Harold N. (1996). "Nimravidae". In Donald R. Prothero and Robert J. Emry (ed.). The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 468. ISBN 0521433878.