Dinictis felina Dinictis priseus Dinictis 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, Dinictis was endemic to North America from the Late Eocene to Early Miocene epochs (37.2—20.4 mya), existing for approximately {Mya|37.2-20.4.....
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(from the article `sabre-toothed cat`) ...the Pleistocene epochs (36.6 million to 10,000 years ago). The Nimravidae lived until about 7 million years ago. Only distantly related to felids, ...
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Dinictis was a small, primitive cat from the Oligocene (about 40 million years ago). This extinct, sabertooth cat had a sleek body, short legs, powerfully-muscular jaws, a small brain (in a 7 inch long skull), large canine teeth, and a long tail. Dinictis was plantigrade , walking in a flat-footed manner (unlike modern cats, which are probably much...
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