Nimravides
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| Nimravides Fossil range: Miocene |
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Nimravides was a prehistoric saber-toothed felid that lived in North America during the middle and late Miocene[1]. Despite its scientific name Nimravides does not belong to the Nimravidae, but is a true felid, belonging to the family Felidae.
The earlier species of the genus, like Nimravides pedionomus from Chlaredonian deposits are smaller and more primitive than later forms, like Nimravides catacopsis. The tiger-sized Nimravides catacopsis stronly resembles the primitive Machairodus aphanistus, a species known from the Late Miocene of Eurasia [2].
[edit] References
- ^ Larry D.Martin: Felidae in Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of orth America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, Ungulatelike Mammals, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- ^ Turner, Alan (1997). The Big Cats and their fossil relatives. New York: Columbia University Press, 25. ISBN 0-231-10228-3.
