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Megantereon
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Middle Pleistocene
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M. cultridens skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Machairodontinae
Tribe: Smilodontini
Genus: Megantereon
Croizet & Jobert, 1828
Type species
Megantereon cultridens
(Cuvier, 1824)
Other species
  • M. adroveri Pons Moya, 1987
  • M. ekidoit Werdelin & Lewis, 2000
  • M. falconeri Pomel, 1853
  • M. hesperus Gazin, 1933
  • M. microta Zhu et al., 2015
  • M. vakshensis Sharapov, 1986
  • M. whitei Broom, 1937
Synonyms[1]

M. cultridens

  • M. megantereon Croizet & Jobert, 1828
  • Felis megantereon Bravard, 1828
  • M. macroscelis Pomel, 1853

M. falconeri

  • M. nihowanensis Tielhard de Chardin & Piveteau, 1930
  • M. inexpectatus Tielhard de Chardin, 1939
  • M. lantianensis Hu & Qi, 1978

M. whitei

  • M. gracile Broom, 1948
  • M. eurynodon Ewer, 1955

Megantereon is an extinct genus of prehistoric machairodontine saber-toothed cat that lived in North America, Eurasia, and Africa. It is closely related to and possibly the ancestor of Smilodon.

  1. ^ Werdelin, Lars; Flink, Therese (2018). "Chapter 2: The Phylogenetic Context of Smilodon". Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth.

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