Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Parent taxon: Machairodontinae according to A. Berta and H. Galiano 1983
Sister taxa: Dinofelis, Hemimachairodus, Metailurini, Paramachaerodus, Smilodontini
Subtaxa: Adeilosmilus Amphimachairodus Homotheriina Lokotunjailurus Machairodus Miomachairodus Taowu
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Canada (2: Yukon, Yukon ), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (12), Georgia (3), Germany (8), Greece (2), Italy (11), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (6), the Netherlands (1), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), South Africa (1), Spain (8), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (20: California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Blancan of Mexico (2), United States (15: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), France (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kenya (3), South Africa (2), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of China (2), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (5), France (1), Georgia (1), Greece (5), Hungary (2), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (2), Libya (1), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), Senegal (1), South Africa (6), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (8), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
• MN 13 of Moldova (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (6), United States (39: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), South Africa (4), Tanzania (3), Uganda (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (4), Chad (1), China (8), Ethiopia (1), France (1), Greece (11), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (3), Libya (1), Moldova (5), Spain (11), Tajikistan (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (5), Ukraine (3), United States (14: California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)
Total: 293 collections including 310 occurrences