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| Metailurus Temporal range: Tortonian - Late Pleistocene,
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| Metailurus skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | †Machairodontinae |
| Tribe: | †Metailurini |
| Genus: | †Metailurus Zdansky, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Metailurus major Zdansky, 1924
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| Range of Metailurus based on fossil record | |
Metailurus is a genus of saber-toothed cat in the family Felidae, and belonging to the tribe Metailurini, which occurred in North America, Eurasia and Africa from the Miocene to the Middle Pleistocene.[1][2][3]
- ^ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Metailurus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Antón, Mauricio (2013-11-22). Sabertooth. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253010490.