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Metailurini
Metailurini is an extinct taxon of large saber-toothed cats that lived in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America during the Miocene to Pleistocene.〔(PaleoBiology Database: Metailurini, basic info )〕
The best known Metalurini genera are ''Dinofelis'' and ''Metailurus''. Metailurini had canines longer than neofelids, but smaller than true saber toothed cats. The teeth were also are more conical than flat, so called "scimitar-toothed", having broad and mildly elongated upper canines. Like most extinct cats, the majority of species in Metailurini are known primarily from fragments. However, the systematic position and taxonomy of these creatures is now accepted as being true members of Felidae and descended from ''Proailurus'' and ''Pseudaelurus''.〔Wesley-Hunt, Gina D.; Flynn, John J. (2005). "Phylogeny of the Carnivora: basal relationships among the Carnivoramorphans, and assessment of the position of ‘Miacoidea’ relative to Carnivora". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3: 1–28. 〕 Within Felidae, they had been traditionally considered to belong in Machairodontinae, albeit some have in the past proposed a relationship to Pantherinae,〔Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Michael Morlo, Doris Nagel: ''Fossils explained 52 Majestic killers: the sabre-toothed cats.'' Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Geology Today, Vol. 22, No. 4, July–August 2006 (online )〕〔 all phylogenetic analyses support the former classification but the monophyly of the taxon itself might not be supported.
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