The Metailurini are a tribe of extinct cats with slightly elongated and slightly flattened upper canines. In the past they were assigned to the saber-toothed cats , but today they were assigned to the feline cats . Occasionally they are suggested as a separate subfamily, Metailurinae. Metal urine cats were common from the Miocene to the Pleistocene in Africa, Eurasia and North America.
Therailurus (position as an independent genus isdoubteddue to similarities with Dinofelis )
Individual evidence
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