Metailurus
Sign in to saveMetailurus is a genus of saber-toothed cat in the family Felidae, and belonging to the tribe Metailurini, which occurred in North America, Eurasia and Africa from the Miocene to the Middle Pleistocene.
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Metailurus is a genus of saber-toothed cat in the family Felidae, and belonging to the tribe Metailurini, which occurred in North America, Eurasia and Africa from the Miocene to the Middle Pleistocene.
==History and taxonomy== The genus Metailurus was described by Zdansky in 1924 for the two species Metailurus major and Metailurus minor.
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