Original sentence: Barbourofelidae first appears in the fossil record in the early Miocene of Africa.Barbourofelidae is an extinct family of mammalian carnivores.Previously placed as a subfamily of the extinct Nimravidae, the barbourofelids have been recently assigned to their own distinct family, and are now thought to be taxonomically closer to the Felidae than to the Nimravidae
Edited sentence: Barbourofelidae is an extinct family of mammalian carnivores of the suborder Feliformia, family Barborofelidae, which lived in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, and Africa during the Miocene epoch (16.9—9.0 mya), existing for approximately.Barbourofelidae were previously placed as a subfamily of the extinct Nimravidae, the barbourofelids have been recently assigned to their own distinct family, and are now thought to be taxonomically closer to the Felidae than to the Nimravidae.Barbourofelinae was named by Schultz et al.It is not extant.It was assigned to Nimravidae by Bryant (1991); and to Carnivora by Morlo et al.It was reranked as the family Barbourofelidae by Morlo et al.Its type is Barbourofelis.They first appear in the fossil record in the early Miocene of Africa