Promegantereon

Promegantereon; Temporal range:
	Restoration by Mauricio Antón
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	†Machairodontinae
Tribe:	†Smilodontini
Genus:	†Promegantereon; Kretzoi, 1938
Type species
	Promegantereon ogygia; (Kaup, 1832)
Synonyms
	Felis ogygia Kaup, 1832; Felis antediluviana Kaup, 1832; Felis Ogygea (Kaup, 1832) sensu Blainville, 1842; Felis pardus eppelsheimensis Koppen, 1869; Machaerodus ogygius (Kaup, 1832) sensu Cope, 1879; Machaerodus ogygia (Kaup, 1832) sensu Weithofer, 1888; Pontosmilus ogygius (Kaup, 1832) sensu Kretzoi, 1929; Paramachaerodus ogygia (Kaup, 1832) sensu Pilgrim, 1931; Paramachairodus ogygius (Kaup, 1832) sensu Haupt, 1935; Neofelis (?) antediluviana (Kaup, 1832) sensu Haupt, 1935;

Promegantereon is an extinct genus of machairodont from the Miocene of Europe. It is one of the oldest machairodont cat species in the Smilodontini and is believed to be an ancestor of Megantereon and Smilodon.

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