Adeilosmilus
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 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (June 2022) |
| Adeilosmilus Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | †Machairodontinae |
| Genus: | †Adeilosmilus Jiangzuo, Werdelin, and Sun et al., 2022 |
| Species: | †A. kabir
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| Binomial name | |
| †Adeilosmilus kabir Peigné et al., (2005)
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Adeilosmilus is an extinct genus of saber-toothed cats that lived during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene of what is now Chad.
Etymology
The genus name, Adeilosmilus, is derived from adeilos, meaning "fearless" and smilus, meaning "saber".[1]
References
- ^ Jiangzuo, Q.; Werdelin, L.; Sun, Y. (2022). "A dwarf sabertooth cat (Felidae: Machairodontinae) from Shanxi, China, and the phylogeny of the sabertooth tribe Machairodontini". Quaternary Science Reviews. 284: Article 107517. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107517.
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