Named By: | Miklos Kretzoi in 1929 |
Time Period: | Miocene, 16.9-9 Ma |
Location: | Kenya |
Size: | Unavailable |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Few specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Feliformia | Barbourofelidae | |
Barbourofelidae is an extinct family of mammalian carnivores of the suborder Feliformia that lived in North America, Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene epoch (16.9--9.0 Ma) and existed for about 7.9 million years.