Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Parent taxon: Machairodontinae according to Q. Jiangzuo et al. 2022
See also Alroy 2002, Berta and Galiano 1983, Carroll 1988, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Slater and Van Valkenburgh 2008 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010
Sister taxa: Hemimachairodus, Machairodontini, Metailurini, Paramachaerodus, Smilodontini
Subtaxa: Dinofelis abeli Dinofelis aronoki Dinofelis barlowi Dinofelis cristata Dinofelis darti Dinofelis diastemata Dinofelis palaeoonca Dinofelis petteri Dinofelis piveteaui Dinofelis werdelini
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (4 collections), Kenya (4), South Africa (4)
• Blancan of United States (4: Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (2), South Africa (3)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Georgia (1), Kenya (3), Morocco (1), South Africa (6), Tanzania (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (2)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Kenya (3), Spain (1)
Total: 49 collections including 51 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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