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- Megantereon is an extinct genus of prehistoric machairodontine saber-toothed cat that lived in North America, Eurasia, and Africa from the late Pliocene...
- "saber-toothed cats", including the famed genus Smilodon, and others like Megantereon as well as other cats with more modest increases in the size and length...
- †Xenosmilus Tribe †Metailurini †Dinofelis †Metailurus Tribe †Smilodontini †Megantereon †Paramachairodus †Smilodon "PaleoBiology Database: Smilodon, basic info"...
- flat, blade-like edges that defined them as those of machairodonts. Megantereon, a later species, was more intermediate in physiology between these earlier...
- two species in this new subgenus: Machairodus (Megantereon) crenatidens and Machairodus (Megantereon) nesti****. In 1918, the species Homotherium moravi****...
- probably descended from S. gracilis, which itself probably evolved from Megantereon. The hundreds of specimens obtained from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los...
- goat-antelope Megalovis, and more rarely the large saber-toothed cat Megantereon. Zhan-Xiang, Q. I. U. (2002-12-15). "HESPEROTHERIUM - A NEW GENUS OF...
- Africa, Eurasia and North America around 3.5 million years ago, and Megantereon about 3 million years ago. Smilodon lived in North and South America...
- cat species in the Smilodontini and is believed to be an ancestor of Megantereon and Smilodon. The species Felis ogygia was first described by Kaup in...
- a species of bear, which he called Ursus cultridens (known today as Megantereon) based on composite sample of teeth from different countries, species...