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| Barbourofelidae Temporal range: Miocene,
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| Barbourofelis loveorum at the Florida Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Superfamily: | Feloidea |
| Family: | †Barbourofelidae Schultz, et al., 1970[1] |
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Barbourofelidae is an extinct family of carnivorans of the suborder Feliformia, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats,[2] that lived in North America, Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene epoch (22.8—7 million years ago) and existed for about 15.8 million years.[3][4] Thought to be an independent lineage from the Nimravidae and Machairodontinae, which had all attained elongated canines, recent research argues that it may be a subfamily of the Nimravidae.[5] Over the recent years, this hypothesis has been gaining more support among experts.[6]
- ^ "Paleobiology Database (Barbourofelidae)". Retrieved 19 Oct 2012.
- ^ Alba, David; Fortuny, Josep; De Esteban-Trivigno, Soledad; Robles Gimenez, Jose; Almécija, Sergio (January 2012). "ENCEPHALIZATION AND BRAIN MORPHOLOGY IN EXTINCT, FALSE SABER-TOOTHED CATS (BARBOUROFELIDAE)". ResearchGate. 32 – via Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
- ^ Morales, J.; Salesa, M. J.; Pickford, M.; Soria, D. (2001). "A new tribe, new genus and two new species of Barbourofelinae (Felidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of East Africa and Spain". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 92 (1): 97–102. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000067. S2CID 85704378.
- ^ Barrett, P. Z.; Hopkins, W. S. B.; Price, S. A. (2021). "How many sabertooths? Reevaluating the number of carnivoran sabertooth lineages with total-evidence Bayesian techniques and a novel origin of the Miocene Nimravidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (1): e1923523. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1923523. S2CID 236221655.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Barrett, Paul Z.; Hopkins, Samantha; Price, Samantha A. (2021). "How many sabertooths? Reevaluating the number of carnivoran sabertooth lineages with total-evidence Bayesian techniques and a novel origin of the Miocene Nimravidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (1). Bibcode:2021JVPal..41E3523B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1923523. S2CID 236221655.