†tribe Metailurini (cat)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

Parent taxon: Machairodontinae according to A. Berta and H. Galiano 1983

See also Slater and Van Valkenburgh 2008

Sister taxa: Dinofelis, Hemimachairodus, Machairodontini, Paramachaerodus, Smilodontini

Subtaxa: Adelphailurus Metailurus Pontosmilus Stenailurus Therailurus Yoshi

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: Nebraska collection)

• Pliocene of China (1), South Africa (3)

• Hemphillian of United States (5: Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), China (6), Greece (5), Kenya (3), Macedonia (1), Moldova (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)

Total: 33 collections including 36 occurrences

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