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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"...
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probably descended from S. gracilis,
which itself probably evolved from
Megantereon. The
hundreds of
specimens obtained from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los...
- 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****...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
mammals and
several extinct species are represented,
including Megantereon megantereon and
Homotherium crenatidens (both saber-toothed cats), Panthera...
