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Nimravidae is an extinct family of carnivorans, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats, whose fossils are found in North America and Eurasia. Not considered to belong to the true cats (family Felidae ), the nimravids are generally considered closely related and classified as a distinct family in the suborder Feliformia .
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. Extinct genus of saber-toothed cat Smilodon Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Early Holocene, 2.5–0.0082 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 ...
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.
Xenosmilus is in the tribe Homotherini in the subfamily Machairodontinae of the cat family. [1] A paper published in 2022 proposed that Xenosmilus is a more derived member of the tribe Machairodontini (another name for Homotherini), and that Homotherium venezuelensis should be reassigned to Xenosmilus, [11] with a 2024 paper arguing that remains from Uruguay should also be assigned to the ...
Taowu is a genus from the extinct subfamily of saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) within the family of cats (Felidae). 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 ...
Homotherium Fabrini, also known as saber-toothed cats or "tigers," are characterized by their enormous, deadly-sharp canines that paleontologists believe were used to grab and hold onto prey or ...
Nimravides is a genus of extinct saber-toothed cats that lived in North America during the Late Miocene, between 11 and 6.5 Ma. [1] Despite its scientific name, Nimravides does not belong to the Nimravidae , but is a true cat belonging to the family Felidae .