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- the fewest teeth of any carnivore group, and machairodonts reduce the number even further. Most machairodonts retain six incisors, two canines, and six premolars...
- Because of their primitiveness, they are extremely easy to tell from machairodonts. Several defining characteristics are a lack of a coronoid process,...
- 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...
- have competed for such prey with the amphicyonid Magericyon, fellow machairodonts Machairodus and Paramachairodus, the bear Indarctos, and the small hyenid...
- already showed the flat, blade-like edges that defined them as those of machairodonts. Megantereon, a later species, was more intermediate in physiology between...
- Xenosmilus was 33 centimetres (13 in) in length. Compared to other machairodonts, Xenosmilus skull was relatively small, however, the occipital condyles...
- appears to have frequented open habitats more often than contemporary machairodonts. In 1862, Reinhold Friedrich Hensel described the species Machairodus...
- ancestral to living felines and pantherines as well as the extinct machairodonts (saber-tooths), and is a successor to Proailurus. It originated from...
- rectified with the discoveries of more complete skeletons of other machairodonts. Machairodus irtyschensis and Machairodus ischimicus were described...