Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Parent taxon: Feliformia according to S. Tomiya 2011
See also Bryant 1991, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, de Bonis et al. 2019, Flynn and Galiano 1982, Poust et al. 2022, Tseng et al. 2010 and Wesley-Hunt and Werdelin 2005
Sister taxa: Aeluroida, Aeluroidea, Alagtsavbaatar, Asiavorator, Didymictida, Feloidea, Nandiniidae, Palaeogalidae
Subtaxa: Aelurogale Archaelurus Barbourofelinae Eusmilus insignis Maofelis Nimravinae Nimravini Pangurban
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (4: Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma collections)
• Miocene of China (2), France (6), Germany (4), Hungary (1), Kenya (1), Namibia (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Uganda (2), Ukraine (1), United States (18: California, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas)
• Harrisonian of United States (1: Florida)
• Arikareean of United States (11: California, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota)
• Oligocene of Canada (2: Saskatchewan), France (17), Georgia (1), Germany (6), Mongolia (4), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), United States (43: Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1), United States (2: Wyoming)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), China (3), France (1), Mongolia (2), Thailand (1), United States (24: California, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 169 collections including 206 occurrences