Dec 16, 2019 - Explore Lindy Asimus's board "Australian Wildlife", followed by 1604 people on Pinterest. Take this quiz to find out which Aussie animal you are most like! The common ancestor of the Nimravidae and the Felidae was the Viverravidae (feline-like) group of miacids some 55 million years ago in the late Eocene. See more ideas about Australian wildlife, Wildlife, Australian animals. The Nimravidae were a separate family of cat-like animals that evolved parallel to the true cats (Felidae).