Barbourofelis

Barbourofelis is an extinct genus of large feliform, from the subfamily Barbourofelinae, which is part of the family of false-sabertooth cats known as Nimravidae. Barbourofelis, along with Albanosmilus, were the last known nimravids. Barbourofelis lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene epoch from 12 to 7 Ma.

Barbourofelis

Dallas Krentzel · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BarbourofelinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nimravidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Nimravidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 7.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 4.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 21 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPliocene13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13 Mya4.2 Mya

22 occurrences of Barbourofelis on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

22 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

6 formations

Ash Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WDove Spring — 35.30°N, 118.50°WDove Spring — 35.37°N, 117.99°WOgallala — 37.20°N, 99.90°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°WGreen Valley — 37.81°N, 121.91°W

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The named rock units Barbourofelis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Barbourofelis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Barbourofelis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Barbourofelis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

14 references

Each of the 22 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 2 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Barbourofelis

Credit
Dallas Krentzel
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

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not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Barbourofelis loveorum · UF:VP:24447

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBarbourofelinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultz et al. 1970