Nimravinae

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Extinct subfamily of carnivores

title: "Nimravinae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["nimravidae", "bartonian-first-appearances", "tortonian-extinctions", "taxa-named-by-edward-drinker-cope"] description: "Extinct subfamily of carnivores" topic_path: "general/nimravidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimravinae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Extinct subfamily of carnivores ::

| fossil_range = Late Eocene (Bartonian) – Late Oligocene (Chattian) | image = Dinictis felina, South Dakota, USA, Early Oligocene - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC00117.JPG | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = Dinictis skeleton from South Dakota, displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto | taxon = Nimravinae | authority = Cope, 1880 | display_parents = 3 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision =

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.

References

References

  1. (26 October 2021). "The largest hoplophonine and a complex new hypothesis of nimravid evolution". Scientific Reports.
  2. Bryant, Harold N.. (1996). "The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America". Cambridge University Press.

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