Nimravides

Nimravides
	Nimravides catacopis
Temporal occurrence
	Miocene
	12 to 5 million years
Locations
	North America;
Systematics
	Laurasiatheria
	Predators (Carnivora)
	Feline (Feliformia)
	Cats (Felidae)
	Saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae)
	Nimravides
Scientific name
	Nimravides
	Kitts , 1958

Nimravides is an extinct genus of cats from the Middle and Late Miocene and the earliest Pliocene in North America. The upper canines were elongated. Despite the scientific name Nimravides , the genus does not belong to the family of Nimravidae (which is named after the genus Nimravus ), but to the family of cats (Felidae). Earlier species of the genus such as Nimravides pedionomus are somewhat smaller than the later, well-known species Nimravides catacopsis . Nimravides catacopsis reached about the size of a tiger and was strongly reminiscent of the primitive saber-toothed cat Machairodus aphanistus from the late Miocene of Eurasia. Both even seem to be identical.

Individual evidence

↑ Larry D. Martin: Felidae in Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, Ungulatelike Mammals, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
^ Alan Turner: The Big Cats and their fossil relatives . Columbia University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-231-10228-3 , p. 25.

[1] Larry D. Martin: Felidae in Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, Ungulatelike Mammals, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

[2] Alan Turner: The Big Cats and their fossil relatives . Columbia University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-231-10228-3 , p. 25.