†tribe Smilodontini Kretzoi 1929 (cat)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

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

See also Kurten 1968, Liu 2005 and Slater and Van Valkenburgh 2008

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

Subtaxa: Megantereon Rhizosmilodon Smilodon

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (13 collections), Bolivia (5), Brazil (21), Canada (1: Alberta), Chile (2), China (2), Ecuador (4), El Salvador (2), France (5), Georgia (1), Greece (2), Israel (1), Italy (1), Kenya (5), Mexico (6), Peru (4), Romania (1), South Africa (6), Spain (6), United States (56: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia), Uruguay (4), Venezuela (2)

• Blancan of United States (9: Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), France (1), Greece (2), Kenya (4), South Africa (4), Spain (1), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (5), France (1), Kenya (2), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (2), Ukraine (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (4: Florida)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Pakistan (1)

Total: 196 collections including 203 occurrences

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