Barbourofelis

Barbourofelis loveorum

• North America
• Turkey

• Barbourofelis Fricki
• Barbourofelis loveorum
• Barbourofelis morrisi
• Barbourofelis osborni
• Barbourofelis piveteaui
• Barbourofelis vallensiensis
• Barbourofelis whitfordi

Barbourofelis ( named after the explorer EH Barbour ) is an extinct genus of predatory Barbourofelidae family. She was the size of a lion and lived in the Miocene in North America and Eurasia. Barbourofelis was built unusually strong, and was similar in physique more like a bear than a modern big cat. Your powerful canines were strongly reminiscent of the saber-toothed cats ( Machairodontinae ) as Smilodon.

Babrourofelis likely to have evolved from the Eurasian genus Sansanosmilus and emigrated at the beginning of the late Miocene epoch, about 10 to 12 million years ago to North America a. Here there were a total of four species, three of which probably represent a continuous development series that ran Fricki of B. morrisi on B. loveorum up to the last species B.. The fourth North American species B. whitfordi contrast is apparently is a side line that existed at the same time as morrisi, some with as loveorum. The last representatives of the genus died at the same time with the greatest kind Barbourofelis Fricki from about 7 million years ago. Thus, the entire family of Barbourofelidae was extinguished.

The only finding of the genus outside of North America is as pivetaui attributed and dates from the early Spätmiozän of modern Turkey. The incomplete skull also represents one of the last evidence of Barbourofelidae outside North America dar.

Swell

• Michael Benton: prehistoric animals from A to Z. Ars Edition, Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-7607-4553-9.