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Machairodus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene to Pleistocene[1]
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M. aphanistus skull
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Suborder:
Feliformia
Family:
Felidae
Subfamily:
†Machairodontinae
Tribe:
†Machairodontini
Genus:
†Machairodus Kaup, 1833
Type species
†Machairodus aphanistus
Kaup, 1832
Species
M. alberdiaeGinsburg et al., 1981
M. aphanistusKaup, 1832
M. laskereviSotnikova, 1992[2]
M. robinsoniKurtén, 1975
M. horribilisSchlosser, 1903
M. lahayishupupOrcut, 2021
The Knife Tooth Cat[3] (Machairodus) (from Greek: μαχαίραmachaíra, 'knife' and Greek: ὀδούςodoús 'tooth')[4] is a genus of large machairodont or ''saber-toothed cat'' that lived in Africa, Eurasia and North America during the late Miocene. It is the animal from which the subfamily Machairodontinae gets its name and has since become a wastebasket taxon over the years as many genera of sabertooth cat have been and are still occasionally lumped into it.
^Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 103. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
skeletons of other machairodonts. Machairodus irtyschensis and Machairodus ischimicus were described in 1936. Machairodus robinsoni was described in 1976...
and reassigned the subspecies Machairodus aphanistus taracliensis as Machairodus giganteus taracliensis. Machairodus kabir was described in 2005, and...
the Machairodontini or Homotherini with scimitar-toothed cats, such as Machairodus or Homotherium, and the Metailurini, containing genera such as Dinofelis...
further described two species in this new subgenus: Machairodus (Megantereon) crenatidens and Machairodus (Megantereon) nestianus. In 1918, the species Homotherium...
of the Holarctic Late Miocene Homotherin Machairodus (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae): The Case of Machairodus Catocopis Cope, 1887". Journal of Vertebrate...
felids of the subfamily Machairodontinae, which range from the type genus Machairodus of the late Miocene to Smilodon of the Pleistocene. The "false saber-toothed...
Pontosmilus and Proamphimachairodus-he included Machairodus orientalis, Felis ogygia, and Machairodus maximiliani as species of Paramachaerodus-Pontosmilus...
rhinoceros and species now extinct such as a saber-toothed cat of the genus Machairodus. Examples of rock art from the Mesolithic have been discovered near Filiano...
also known for having coined popular prehistoric taxa like Pterosauria, Machairodus, Deinotherium, Dorcatherium, and Chalicotherium. He was born at Darmstadt...
publications in which various researchers classified it as belonging to Machairodus, but a precise characteristic description was not developed. Studies...
respectively. Another contender for the largest felid of all time is Machairodus. M. horribilis from China was estimated at 405 kg (893 lb) while the...
The holotype specimen was originally described in 1916 and assigned to Machairodus schlosseri by Alexejew, though Otto Zdansky in 1924 expressed doubt as...
more than 60 species were found, including Chilotherium, Samotherium, Machairodus, and Lagomeryx. It was discovered in 1928 by palaeontologist Yuri Alexandrovich...
machairodonts Machairodus and Paramachairodus, the bear Indarctos, and the small hyenid Protictitherium. While the much larger Indarctos, Machairodus and Magericyon...
Carnivorans. The species of sabre-tooth cat known as Promegantereon ogygia and Machairodus aphanistus (the first complete skull) were found at B-1, as was Simocyon...
species besides the hominin A. afarensis, among them hyenas, wild cats (Machairodus), baboons, wild boars, giraffes, gazelles, rhinos, several kinds of antelope...
George D. (2002). "The first appearance of Dinocrocuta gigantea and Machairodus aphanistus (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Miocene of Bulgaria". Mitteilungen...
badger, wolverines, the giant hyena Pachycrocuta, the saber-toothed cat Machairodus inexpectatus, the tiger, the leopard, sika deer, the antelope Spirocerus...
Tusco-Sardinian area 6.5 million years ago, large predators such as Machairodus and Metailurus were present among the new generation of European immigrants...
many Eppelsheim mammals, including such famous ones as Deinotherium, Machairodus and Chalicotherium, named the fragmentary material Agnotherium antiquum...
and the saber-toothed cats: Megantereon, Dinofelis, Homotherium and Machairodus. Australopithecines and early Homo likely preferred cooler conditions...
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