Nimravus
Sign in to saveNimravus is an extinct genus of "false" saber-toothed cat that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Eocene and Oligocene epochs 35.3—27.1 mya, existing for approximately . Not closely related to true saber-toothed cats, they evolved a similar form through parallel evolution. Fossils have been uncovered from western U.S. from Oregon to Southern California and Nebraska, and also from Eurasia from France to Mongolia.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Nimravinae
- Image
- Nimravus - Roger Witter.jpg
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- end time
- 26300000-0
- Commons category
- Nimravus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Nimravus
- start time
- 33300000-0
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- Palaeobiology
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- Palaeopathology
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Nimravus is an extinct genus of "false" saber-toothed cat that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Eocene and Oligocene epochs 35.3—27.1 mya, existing for approximately . Not closely related to true saber-toothed cats, they evolved a similar form through parallel evolution. Fossils have been uncovered from western U.S. from Oregon to Southern California and Nebraska, and also from Eurasia from France to Mongolia.
thumb|left|N. brachyops skull with canines piercing the leg bone of another specimen
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