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Barbourofelidae

Prosansanosmilus peregrinus SMNS 41482Prosansanosmilus eggeri holotype (Morlo et al., 2004, fig. 1)    
Taxonomy
Barbourofelinae was named by Schultz et al. (1970). It is not extant. Its type is Barbourofelis.

It was reranked as the family Barbourofelidae by Morlo et al. (2004).

It was assigned to Carnivora by Morlo et al. (2004); and to Nimravidae by Bryant (1991) and Slater and Van Valkenburgh (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Barbourofelinae Schultz et al.
1991Barbourofelinae Bryant p. 71
2004Barbourofelidae Morlo et al. p. 45
2008Barbourofelinae Slater and Van Valkenburgh p. 407

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