Parent taxon: Feliformia according to S. Tomiya 2011
See also Flynn and Galiano 1982 and Savage 1965
Sister taxa: Aeluroida, Aeluroidea, Alagtsavbaatar, Asiavorator, Didymictida, Nandiniidae, Nimravidae, Palaeogalidae
Subtaxa: Felidae Prionodontidae Stenogale Viretictis
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), Argentina (25), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (6), Brazil (29), Bulgaria (1), Canada (9: Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Yukon ), Chile (11), China (23), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (5), Egypt (3), El Salvador (2), Ethiopia (9), France (38), Georgia (6), Germany (14), Gibraltar (1), Greece (27), Guatemala (1), Honduras (1), Hungary (7), India (1), Indonesia (6), Israel (4), Italy (44), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (21), Libya (2), Madagascar (2), Mexico (10), Monaco (3), Mongolia (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (6), Niger (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Peru (10), Portugal (3), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (53), Spain (23), Sudan (7), Swaziland (1), Syria (1), Taiwan (2), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (9), Thailand (1), Turkey (4), the United Kingdom (10), United States (199: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming), Uruguay (9), Venezuela (3), Zambia (2)
• Blancan of Mexico (5), United States (97: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), Ethiopia (2), France (3), Greece (3), Hungary (3), Italy (3), Kenya (6), South Africa (6), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Argentina (3), Chad (1), China (4), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (9), France (3), Georgia (2), Greece (6), Hungary (8), India (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (3), Kenya (9), Libya (2), Moldova (4), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (7), Senegal (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (8), Spain (4), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (22), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), United States (3: California, Idaho, North Carolina)
• MN 13 of Moldova (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (8), United States (67: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)
• Baodean of China (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), China (3), Ethiopia (2), Greece (1), Kenya (4), Kyrgyzstan (1), South Africa (6), Tanzania (3), Turkey (1), Uganda (3), United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Austria (1), Bulgaria (4), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Chad (2), China (20), the Czech Republic (1), Ethiopia (1), France (17), Germany (6), Greece (15), India (1), Iraq (1), Italy (5), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (12), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (1), Macedonia (1), Mexico (1), Moldova (5), Mongolia (1), Morocco (1), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (20), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (2), Tunisia (1), Turkey (6), Ukraine (5), United States (77: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Neogene of Taiwan (2), Ukraine (2)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Montana)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Switzerland (1), United States (1: South Dakota)
Total: 1287 collections including 2004 occurrences