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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. Extinct genus of saber-toothed cat Smilodon Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Early Holocene, 2.5–0.0082 Ma Pre๊ ๊ 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 ...
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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 Middle Miocene to early Holocene, from 10.3 mya—8,200 years ago.
A male Amphimachairodus giganteus was one of the largest machairodonts. It dwarfs its modern relative, the common house cat, Felis catus. Based on mitochondrial DNA sequences extracted from fossils, machairodontines diverged from the ancestors of living cats around 20 million years ago, with the last surviving machairodont genera Homotherium and Smilodon estimated to have diverged from each ...
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The Etymology of the genus name was given by Wallace & Hubert to mean "root of Smilodon", with "rhizo" meaning "root" because of the apparent ancestral relation to Smilodon. The species name "fiteae" was named in honor of Barbara Fite, who donated the paratype specimen, UF 135626 , to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Prehistoric Predators is a 2007 National Geographic Channel program based on different predators that lived in the Cenozoic era, including Smilodon and C. megalodon.The series investigated how such beasts hunted and fought other creatures, and what drove them to extinction.