Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Alternative spelling: Paramachairodus
Synonym: Promegantereon Kretzoi 1938
Parent taxon: Machairodontinae according to S. C. Wallace and R. C. Hulbert 2013
See also Carroll 1988, Jiangzou et al. 2022, Salesa et al. 2010, Siliceo et al. 2014 and Slater and Van Valkenburgh 2008
Sister taxa: Dinofelis, Hemimachairodus, Machairodontini, Metailurini, Smilodontini
Subtaxa: Paramachaerodus maximiliani Paramachaerodus ogygia Paramachaerodus orientalis Paramachaerodus schlosseri Paramachaerodus transasiaticus Paramachaerodus yingliangi
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (1 collection)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Arizona)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), China (2), Greece (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Moldova (2), Spain (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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