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Fossils very
similar to
Dinofelis from
Lothagam range back to
around 8
million years ago, in the Late Miocene. The
genus Dinofelis was
originally named by...
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degree of
elongation was variable, and in some
machairodontines like
Dinofelis the
length of the
upper canines was much more modest. Sometimes, other...
- the
Miocene to the Pleistocene. The best
known Metalurini genera are
Dinofelis and Metailurus.
Metailurini had
canines longer than Neofelis, but smaller...
- †Homotherini †Homotherium †Machairodus †Xenosmilus
Tribe †Metailurini †
Dinofelis †Metailurus
Tribe †Smilodontini †Megantereon †Paramachairodus †Smilodon...
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Dinofelis...
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themselves victims of
predation by big cats. Originally, it was
believed that
Dinofelis was
responsible for such killings,
though recent evidence suggests that...
- the
hunting hyena Chasmaporthetes nitidula, and the saber-toothed cats
Dinofelis and Megantereon. In 1993,
American palaeoanthropologist Leslie C. Aiello...
- with the type specimen, a
lower jaw,
possibly actually belonging to
Dinofelis (another machairodontine) instead. In 1972 the
species Homotherium problemati****...
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within the
Hadar Formation include canids (Canis and Nyctereutes),
felids (
Dinofelis, Leptailurus, Felis, Homotherium, and Panthera),
hyaenids (Chasmaporthetes...
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dangerous animals or
animal parts. Examples:
dinosaur ("terrible lizard"),
Dinofelis ("terrible cat"),
Dinornis ("terrible bird");
Deinonychus ("terrible claw")...
