Most extinct cat-like animals, once regarded as members of the Felidae, later turned out to be members of related, but distinct, families: the " false sabretooths " Nimravidae and Barbourofelidae.

Besides the machairodonts, saber-toothed predators arose in Nimravidae, Barbourofelidae, Creodonta ( Machaeroidinae ) and even in a group of sparassodont metatherians ( Thylacosmilidae ).

The Feloidea superfamily ( or Feliformia suborder )– Felidae ( cats ), Prionodontidae ( Asiatic linsangs ), Herpestidae ( mongooses ), Hyaenidae ( hyenas ), Viverridae ( civets ), and Eupleridae ( Malagasy carnivorans ), as well as the extinct family Nimravidae ( paleofelids ) – often have spotted, rosetted or striped coats, and tend to be more brilliantly colored than their Canoidean counterparts.

There were also other superficially cat-like mammals, such as the marsupial sabertooth Thylacosmilus or the Nimravidae, which are not included in Felidae despite superficial similarities.

The Nimravidae are the oldest, entering the landscape around 42 mya and becoming extinct by 7. 2 mya.

Saber-toothed cat, sabre-toothed cat ( see spelling differences ), often referred to by the misnomer Saber-toothed tiger refers to the extinct subfamilies of Machairodontinae ( Felidae ), Barbourofelidae ( Feliformia ), and Nimravidae ( Feliformia ) as well as two families related to marsupials that were found worldwide from the Eocene Epoch to the end of the Pleistocene Epoch ( 42 mya — 11, 000 years ago ), existing for approximately.

An example from the fossil record would be a specimen of Nimravidae, an extinct branch of carnivores in the mammalian evolutionary tree, if said specimen came from Europe in the Miocene epoch.

Specimen of Nimravidae, an extinct branch of carnivores in the Miocene epoch were remnant of the nimravid lineage in this habitat.

Previously classified as a subfamily of Nimravidae, the barbourofelids have been recently reassigned to their own distinct family Barbourofelidae ( Morlo et al.

Image: Hoplophoneus primaevus 01. jpg | 4th saber-tooth instance: Nimravidae ( Carnivora ).

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For this reason, teachers sometimes compile lists of false friends as an aid for their students.

Comedy sometimes includes puns on false friends, which are considered particularly amusing if one of the two words is obscene ; when an obscene meaning is produced in these circumstances, it is called, Greek for " ill-sounding ".

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The term " false cognate " is sometimes misused to describe false friends.

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