Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Parent taxon: Felidae according to M. Antón et al. 2013
See also Berta and Galiano 1983, Bjork 1970, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Liu 2005, Martin 1998, McKenna and Bell 1997, Peigne et al. 2005, Roussiakis and Theodorou 2003, Salesa et al. 2010, Slater and Van Valkenburgh 2008, Sotnikova 1991 and Zurita et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Aeluropsis, Ailurin, Catolynx, Cynaelurus, Cynailurus, Diamantofelis, Drepanodon, Epimachairodus, Felinae, Hyperailurictis, Jansofelis, Katifelis, Machaerodus, Mellivorodon, Namafelis, Pantherinae, Plethaelurus, Proailurus, Profelis, Propontosmilus, Pseudaelurus, Sivaelurus, Sivafelis, Sivasmilus, Uncia, Vinayakia, Viretailurus, Vishnufelis
Subtaxa: Dinofelis Hemimachairodus Machairodontini Metailurini Paramachaerodus Smilodontini
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (13 collections), Austria (1), Bolivia (5), Brazil (23), Canada (3: Alberta, Yukon, Yukon ), Chile (2), China (5), Czechia (1), Ecuador (4), El Salvador (2), Ethiopia (4), France (16), Georgia (3), Germany (8), Greece (5), Israel (1), Italy (12), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (11), Mexico (6), the Netherlands (1), North Atlantic (1), Peru (4), Portugal (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (9), Spain (9), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (71: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia), Uruguay (4), Venezuela (2)
• MN 16 of France (1)
• Villafranchian of Greece (3), Hungary (2), Slovakia (1)
• Blancan of Mexico (3), United States (29: Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), Ethiopia (2), France (2), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kenya (5), South Africa (5), Spain (1), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of China (3), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (7), Georgia (2), Greece (3), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (7), Libya (1), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (3), Senegal (1), South Africa (7), Spain (2), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (10), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1)
• MN 13 of Moldova (1)
• Turolian of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (4), China (2), Greece (4), Kazakhstan (1), North Macedonia (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Tajikistan (1), Türkiye (2)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (7), United States (47: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (1), Greece (1), Kenya (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), South Africa (5), Tanzania (3), Uganda (1)
• Miocene of Chad (2), China (9), Ethiopia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (10), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Kenya (5), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (1), Moldova (5), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (9), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (4), Ukraine (4), United States (15: California, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 520 collections including 639 occurrences