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Machairodus (from Greek: μαχαίρα machaíra, 'knife' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') [2] is a genus of large machairodont or ''saber-toothed cat'' that lived in Africa, Eurasia and North America during the Late Miocene, from 12.5 million to 5.5 million years ago. It is the animal from which the subfamily Machairodontinae gets its name.
Megantereon is an extinct genus of prehistoric machairodontine saber-toothed cat that lived in Eurasia, Africa and possibly North America from the late Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene. It is a member of the tribe Smilodontini , and closely related to and possibly the ancestor of the famous American sabertooth Smilodon .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. Extinct genus of saber-toothed cat Smilodon Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Early Holocene, 2.5–0.01 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Mounted S. populator skeleton at Tellus Science Museum Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class ...
The saber-toothed cats represent an ancient branch of cats, which according to molecular genetics studies, forms the sister group of today's big cats and small cats. Their separation from the common branch occurred about 20 million years ago in the Lower Miocene. [4] [5] [6] The feature that gave saber-toothed cats their name is their ...
Thylacosmilus is an extinct genus of saber-toothed metatherian mammals that inhabited South America from the Late Miocene to Pliocene epochs.Though Thylacosmilus looks similar to the "saber-toothed cats", it was not a felid, like the well-known North American Smilodon, but a sparassodont, a group closely related to marsupials, and only superficially resembled other saber-toothed mammals due to ...
Homotherini (Machairodontini) is a tribe (or subtribe) [1] of saber-toothed cats of the family Felidae (true cats). The tribe is commonly known as scimitar-toothed cats.These saber-toothed cats were endemic to North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America [2] from the Miocene to Pleistocene living from c. 23 Ma until c. 12,000 years ago. [3]
Smilodontini is an extinct tribe within the Machairodontinae or "saber-toothed cat" subfamily of the Felidae. The tribe is also known as the " dirk-toothed cats ". They were endemic to South America , North America , Europe , Asia , and Africa during the Miocene to Pleistocene , from 10.3 mya —11,000 years ago, existing for approximately 10.3 ...
A new point-to-point bite model is introduced in the article by Andersson et al., showing that for saber-tooth cats, the depth of the killing bite decreases dramatically with increasing prey size. [10] The extended gape of saber-toothed cats results in a considerable increase in bite depth when biting into prey with a radius of less than 10 cm.