- Felidae,
representing the
earliest diverging major branch of the family.
Machairodonts varied in size from
comparable to
lynxes to
exceeding that of lions...
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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....
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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...
- machaíra, 'knife' and Gr****: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is a
genus of
large machairodont or ''saber-toothed cat'' that
lived in
Africa and
Eurasia during the...
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already showed the flat, blade-like
edges that
defined them as
those of
machairodonts. Megantereon, a
later species, was more
intermediate in
physiology between...
- 'beast')) was
proposed by
Emilio Fabrini in 1890
during a
review of
machairodont material from the Late Pliocene-Early
Pleistocene of Tuscany, Italy,...
- The
study proposed that
Megantereon was
transitional form
between machairodonts that had
concealed saber teeth and the
exposed sabers of Smilodon. Other...
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around 20
million years ago.
Smilodon was one of the last
surviving machairodonts alongside Homotherium.
Smilodon lived in the
Americas during the Pleistocene...
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Barbourofelis fricki shared territory with the
machairodont species Amphimachairodus coloradensis. Both
genera of
machairodont, as well as the bear
Agriotherium and...
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Amphimachairodus is an
extinct genus of
large machairodonts. It is also a
member of the
tribe Homotherini within Machairodontinae and is most closely...
