Metailurini

Metailurini
Skeletal reconstruction of Metailurus
Temporal occurrence
Miocene ( Tortonium ) to Middle Pleistocene
9.0 million years to 126,000 years
Locations
North America Eurasia Africa
Systematics
Laurasiatheria Predators (Carnivora) Feline (Feliformia) Cats (Felidae) Saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) Metailurini
Scientific name
Metailurini
Turner & Antón , 1997

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.

Distribution area of ​​the genus Metailurus

Systematics

Internal systematics of the Machairodontinae according to Piras et al. 2018

Machairodontinae	Homotheriini    Machairodus      Amphimachairodus      Lokotunjailurus      Xenosmilus      Dinobastis      Homotherium       Smilodontini    Promegantereon      Paramachaerodus      Megantereon      Smilodon      Rhizosmilodon   Metailurini    Fortunictis      Adelphailurus      Stenailurus      Metailurus      Yoshi      Dinofelis      Miomachairodus

Genera

• Adelphailurus
• Dinofelis
• Metailurus
• Pontus Milus
• Stenailurus
• Therailurus (position as an independent genus isdoubteddue to similarities with Dinofelis )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lars W. van den Hoek Ostend, Michael Morlo, Doris Nagel: Fossils explained 52 Majestic killers: the saber-toothed cats. Geology Today 22 (4), 2006, pp. 150-157, doi: 10.1111 / j.1365-2451.2006.00572.x
2. ^ Alan Turner: The Big Cats and their fossil relatives . Columbia University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-231-10228-3 , p. 60.
3. ↑ Paolo Pirasa, Daniele Silvestro, Francesco Carotenuto, Silvia Castiglione, Anastassios Kotsakis, Leonardo Maiorino, Marina Melchionna, Alessandro Mondanaro, Gabriele Sansalone, Carmela Serio, Veronica Anna Vero, Pasquale Raia: Evolution of the sabertooth mandible: A deadly ecomorphological specialization. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 496, 2018, pp. 166–174, doi: 10.1016 / j.palaeo.2018.01.034

Web links

• The Paleobiology Database