It is mainly known from Middle Miocene-age fossils in Turkey and persisted until the early Late Miocene (Vallesian).

[1] Fossils of this machairodont have been found in the Vallesian-age Bahe Formation in Shaanxi, China, and Yeni Eskihisar in Anatolia.

[2] The genus was first named by paleontologist Norbert Schmidt-Kittler in 1976 based on the holotype, a partial skull from Akçaköy, Eşme District, Turkey, and a second specimen, a lower jaw from Yeni Eskihisar.

[4] A 2018 phylogenetic analysis recovered Miomachairodus pseudailuroides as basal to most of the rest of Machairodontinae.

[6] Homotheriini Smilodontini Metailurini Miomachairodus pseudailuroides Diamantofelis ferox Namafelis minor Pseudaelurus spp.