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
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (13 collections), Bolivia (5), Brazil (23), Canada (1: Alberta), Chile (2), China (3), 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 (57: 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)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Slovakia (1)
• MN 16 of France (1)
• Blancan of United States (9: Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), France (1), Greece (1), Kenya (4), South Africa (4), Spain (1), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (5), Kenya (2), Romania (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: 200 collections including 207 occurrences