Nimravinae
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- Parent taxon
- Nimravidae
- Image
- Dinictis felina, South Dakota, USA, Early Oligocene - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC00117.JPG
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- taxon rank
- subfamily
- taxon name
- Nimravinae
- start time
- 40000000-0
- end time
- 7000000-00
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The Nimravinae are a subfamily of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats. They were found in Eurasia and North America from the Late Eocene through the Late Oligocene epochs (Bartonian through Chattian stages, 35.37—25.9 mya), spanning about . Including supplementary materials Centered in North America, the radiation of the Nimravinae from the Eocene to Oligocene was the first radiation of cat-like carnivorans. This subfamily would later disperse into Africa and gave rise to Barbourofelinae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nimravinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.