Dinaelurus

Dinaelurus
Temporal range: Early to Late Oligocene (Rupelian to Chattian),
Holotype skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Nimravidae
Subfamily: Nimravinae
Genus: Dinaelurus
Eaton, 1922
Species:
D. crassus
Binomial name
Dinaelurus crassus
Eaton, 1922

Dinaelurus is a genus of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores, also known as "false saber-toothed cats". Assigned to the subfamily Nimravinae, Dinaelurus was endemic to North America during the Oligocene epoch (32.6—27.2 mya), existing for approximately 5.4 million years. Including supplementary materials