Holotype: UCMP 19476 Barbourofelis osborni
Specimen Repository: University of California Museum of Paleontology
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Original diagnosis: Merriam, J. C. 1919. Tertiary mammalian faunas of the Mohave Desert. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, 11(5):544-546. Genus reassignments: Gregory, J. T. 1942. Pliocene vertebrates from Big Spring Canyon South Dakota. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, 26(4):307-446. Kitts, D. B. 1957. A Pliocene vertebrate fauna from Ellis County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular, 45:27. Mawby, J. E. 1965. Machairodonts from the late Cenozoic of the Panhandle of Texas. Journal of Mammalogy, 46(4):573-587. Schultz, C. B., M. R. SCHULTZ, AND L. D. MARTIN. 1970. A new tribe of saber-toothed cats (Barbourofelini) from the Pliocene of North America. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, 9(1):1-31. Baskin, J. A. 1981. Barbourofelis (Nimravidae) and Nimravides (Felidae), with a description of two new species from the late Miocene fo Florida. Journal of Mammalogy, 62(1):122-139.