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- Felidae, representing the earliest diverging major branch of the family. Machairodonts varied in size from comparable to lynxes to exceeding that of lions...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 'beast')) was proposed by Emilio Fabrini in 1890 during a review of machairodont material from the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene of Tuscany, Italy,...
- Amphimachairodus is an extinct genus of large machairodonts. It is also a member of the tribe Homotherini within Machairodontinae and is most closely...
- around 20 million years ago. Smilodon was one of the last surviving machairodonts alongside Homotherium. Smilodon lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene...
- Barbourofelis fricki shared territory with the machairodont species Amphimachairodus coloradensis. Both genera of machairodont, as well as the bear Agriotherium and...