Barbourofelidae
| Barbourofelidae Temporal range: Miocene, | |
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| Barbourofelis loveorum at the Florida Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Superfamily: | Feloidea |
| Family: | †Barbourofelidae Schultz, et al., 1970 |
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Barbourofelidae (or Barbourofelinae) is an extinct family (or subfamily) of carnivorans of the suborder Feliformia, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats, that lived in North America, Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene epoch (22.8—7 million years ago) and existed for about 15.8 million years. Thought to be an independent lineage from the Nimravidae and Machairodontinae, which had all attained elongated canines, recent research argues that it may be a subfamily of the Nimravidae. Over the recent years, this hypothesis has been gaining more support among experts.