Dinictis
Sign in to saveDinictis is a genus of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores, also known as "false saber-toothed cats". Assigned to the subfamily Nimravinae, Dinictis was endemic to North America from the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene epochs (35.7—29.5 million years ago), existing for about . Including supplementary materials
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Dinictis is a genus of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores, also known as "false saber-toothed cats". Assigned to the subfamily Nimravinae, Dinictis was endemic to North America from the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene epochs (35.7—29.5 million years ago), existing for about . Including supplementary materials
== Taxonomy == thumb|left|Restoration by Robert Bruce Horsfall thumb|left|Skeleton in the Field Museum of Natural History Dinictis was named by American paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1854. Its type is Dinictis felina. It was assigned to the Nimravidae by Cope (1880); and to the Nimravinae by Flynn and Galiano (1982), Bryant (1991), and Martin (1998).