- 4–23.03
million years ago),
spanning about 17.37
million years. The
barbourofelids,
which were
formerly classified as a
subfamily of the Nimravidae, were...
- on
basicranial morphology, that
barbourofelids may be more
closely related to
nimravids than to felids.
Barbourofelids first appear in the
fossil record...
-
appearance is the
barbourofelids.
These feliform carnivorans are very
closely related to
actual cats. The best-known
barbourofelid is the
eponymous Barbourofelis...
- machairodonts,
other saber-toothed
predators also
arose in the nimravids,
barbourofelids, machaeroidines,
hyaenodonts and even in two
groups of metatherians...
- 70 kg (150 lb) on average. The
genus had the
longest canines of all the
barbourofelids,
which were also flattened,
indicating a high
degree of specialization...
-
Afrosmilus is a
fossil genus of
afrosmilin barbourofelid. It
lived in
Africa during the
middle Miocene. The
species Pseudaelurus afric**** was
first described...
-
Vampyrictis is a
fossil genus of
barbourofelid containing a
single species Vampyrictis vipera. It was
described based on
fragmentary jaw
material from...
- Sandelzhausen, Germany, was
described in 2004. It
differed from
other European barbourofelids in
having a more
plesiomorphic ("ancestral") morphology, with less developed...
-
felid Pseudaelurus from the same site. This is
different from
later barbourofelids,
which are
believed to have had semi-plantigrade or semi-digitigrade...
- All modern-day cats are
descended from Pseudaelurus.
Nimravids and
barbourofelids were saber-toothed cat-like
animals of the
families Nimravidae and Barbourofelidae...
