Machairodontinae

Machairodontinae is an extinct subfamily of carnivoran mammals of the cat family Felidae, representing the earliest diverging major branch of the family.

Machairodontinae

George Miquilena PePeEfe Izvora Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
FelidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Felidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 644 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 191 of 644 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 147 of 644 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 304 of 644 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 15 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 17 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 29 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 32 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 34 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 34 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 39 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 38 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 64 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 84 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 77 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 160 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

644 occurrences of Machairodontinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

644 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

112 formations

Koobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.45°EKoobi Fora — 3.75°N, 36.36°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.31°N, 36.22°EKoobi Fora — 3.91°N, 36.38°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVogel River Series — 3.20°S, 35.21°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EAsh Hollow — 40.50°N, 100.50°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 101.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.70°N, 103.10°WAsh Hollow — 41.30°N, 101.89°WAsh Hollow — 42.80°N, 100.80°WAsh Hollow — 41.20°N, 98.80°WHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.90°N, 35.71°ENachukui — 4.17°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.45°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WLukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°ELukeino — 0.76°N, 35.88°EMiramar — 37.98°S, 57.59°WMiramar — 37.87°S, 57.51°WOgallala — 36.70°N, 101.40°WOgallala — 38.90°N, 101.70°WOgallala — 37.20°N, 99.90°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.77°N, 101.28°WWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.09°S, 33.73°EWembere-Manonga — 4.03°S, 33.77°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°EMesa — 9.85°N, 63.33°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.00°N, 100.70°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.03°N, 100.75°WGlenns Ferry — 43.60°N, 116.80°WGlenns Ferry — 42.80°N, 114.90°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°E

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The named rock units Machairodontinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 88 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 375 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Machairodontinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Machairodontinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 499 sites for Machairodontinae, and this reads 240 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

357 references

Each of the 644 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. 345 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 content1

Picture of Machairodontinae

Credit
George Miquilena PePeEfe Izvora Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Machairodontinae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1872