Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Alternative spellings: Homotheriini, Homotherini
Full reference: Q. Jiangzuo, L. Werdelin, and Y. Sun. 2022. A dwarf sabertooth cat (Felidae: Machairodontinae) from Shanxi, China, and the phylogeny of the sabertooth tribe Machairodontini. Quaternary Science Reviews 284:107517
Parent taxon: Machairodontini according to Q. Jiangzuo et al. 2022
See also Antón et al. 2013, Kurten 1968, Martin et al. 2000 and Slater and Van Valkenburgh 2008
Sister taxa: Adeilosmilus, Amphimachairodus, Lokotunjailurus, Machairodus, Miomachairodus, Taowu
Subtaxa: Homotherium Nimravides Xenosmilus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Canada (2: Yukon, Yukon ), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (11), Georgia (3), Germany (8), Greece (1), Italy (10), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (6), the Netherlands (1), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), South Africa (1), Spain (8), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (20: California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (15: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), France (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kenya (3), South Africa (2), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (5), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (5), Hungary (2), Kenya (2), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), South Africa (5), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (8), Ukraine (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (10: California, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1), Uganda (1)
• Miocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), United States (11: California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)
Total: 171 collections including 175 occurrences