Nimravides
Nimravides was a prehistoric saber-toothed cat which lived in North America during the middle and late Miocene.[1] Despite its scientific name Nimravides does not belong to the Nimravidae, but belongs to the family Felidae.
| Nimravides Temporal range: Miocene
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The earlier species of the genus are smaller and more primitive than the later forms. The tiger-sized Nimravides catacopsis resembles the primitive Machairodus aphanistus, a species known from the late Miocene of Eurasia.[2]
- Felinae
- †Nimravides
- †Nimravides nimravidus
- †Nimravides catacopsis
- †Nimravides pedionomus
- †Nimravides hibbardi
- †Nimravides galiani
- †Nimravides thinobates
- †Nimravides
References
- ↑ Martin Larry D. 1998. Felidae. In Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, volume 1: Terrestrial carnivores, ungulates, ungulatelike mammals. Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Turner, Alan 1997. The big cats and their fossil relatives. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 25. ISBN 0-231-10228-3.
Other websites
- Nimravides galiani Archived 2012-12-10 at Archive.today
- Nimravides thinobates
- Nimravides hibbardi
- Nimravides
- Nimravides pedionomus Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- N. catacopis Archived 2014-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Nimravides List