- saber-toothed cats,
although they do not
belong to the felids.
Besides the
machairodonts,
other saber-toothed
predators also
arose in the nimravids, barbourofelids...
-
Barbourofelis fricki shared territory with the
machairodont species Amphimachairodus coloradensis. Both
genera of
machairodont, as well as the bear
Agriotherium and...
- machaíra, 'knife' and Gr****: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is a
genus of
large machairodont or ''saber-toothed cat'' that
lived in Africa,
Eurasia and
North America...
-
million years ago – 11,000
years ago). One of the best-known
genera is the
machairodont or "saber-toothed cat" Smilodon, the
species of which,
especially S....
-
already showed the flat, blade-like
edges that
defined them as
those of
machairodonts. Megantereon, a
later species, was more
intermediate in
physiology between...
- The
study proposed that
Megantereon was
transitional form
between machairodonts that had
concealed saber teeth and the
exposed sabers of Smilodon. Other...
-
Promegantereon is an
extinct genus of
machairodont from the
Miocene of Europe. It is one of the
oldest machairodont cat
species in the
Smilodontini and...
-
Amphimachairodus is an
extinct genus of
large machairodonts. It is also a
member of the
tribe Homotherini within Machairodontinae and is most closely...
- crest.
Homotherium had
shorter upper canine teeth than
members of the
machairodont tribe Smilodontini such as
Smilodon or Megantereon, but
these were still...
-
differing aspects of
their cranial anatomy allowed the
newly arrived machairodont genera to
survive a
faunal change occurring during the earl-late Hemphillian...
