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Metailurini Turner & Anton 1997
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TRIBE METAILURINI
Remarks: Our concept of Metailurini is largely similar to that used by Turner & Antón (1997) and Werdelin et al. (2010), only that we found most species of Paramachaerodus similar to Metailurus, and these two genera are likely to be closely related. Paramachaerodus does not show a closer affinity to Smilodontini than Metailurus does. The two derived species of Paramachaerodus have serrated canines and V-shaped incisors, and are unlikely to be ancestral to Smilodontini. Their positions are in need of further investigation.
Notes
Published as part of Jiangzuo, Qigao, Li, Shijie, Fu, Jiao, Duan, Shiqi Wang Xueping Ji Mei & Che, Decai, 2022, Fossil Felidae (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the Yuanmou hominid site, southern China (Late Miocene) and its significance in the living environment of the fossil ape, pp. 1156-1174 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196 on page 1163, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab116, http://zenodo.org/record/7323717
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Felidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Turner & Anton
- Taxon rank
- tribe
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metailurini Turner, 1997 sec. Jiangzuo, Li, Fu, Duan & Che, 2022
References
- Turner A, Anton M. 1997. The big cats and their fossil relatives: an illustrated guide to their evolution and natural history. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Werdelin L, Yamaguchi N, Johnson WE, O'Brien SJ. 2010. Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae). In: Macdonald DW, Loveridge AJ, eds. Biology and conservation of wild felids. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 59 - 82.