Metailurus
| Metailurus Temporal range: Miocene–Pleistocene | |
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| Metailurus skeleton | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Machairodontinae |
| Tribe: | Metailurini |
| Genus: | Metailurus Zdansky (1924) |
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M. major Zdansky, 1924 | |
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| Range of Metailurus based on fossil record | |
Metailurus is a genus of felid saber-toothed cat in the family Machairodontidae and belonging to the tribe Metailurini, which occurred in Asia and Africa from the Miocene to the Pleistocene.[1][2]
Metailurus is known as a "false sabertooth" cat because, instead of true saberteeth, it has a cross between long, flat and blade-like saberteeth and the shorter cone-shaped teeth of modern-day felines. The canines are longer than even the clouded leopard but significantly shorter than true saber teeth and more conical than bladed.[3]
"Metailurus" minor Zdansky, 1924 has been reassigned to the felid genus Yoshi.[4]
References
- ↑ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Metailurus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ↑ Turner, A and Mauricio Anton. Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives 1997. Columbia University Press. New York.
- ↑ Nikolai Spassov; Denis Geraads (2015). "A New Felid from the Late Miocene of the Balkans and the Contents of the Genus Metailurus Zdansky, 1924 (Carnivora, Felidae)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (1): 45–56. doi:10.1007/s10914-014-9266-5.
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Data related to Metailurus at Wikispecies
| Homotherini |  | |
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| Metailurini |
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| Smilodontini | ||
| Machairodontini | ||
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