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Megantereon
Extinct genus of saber-toothed cat from North America, Eurasia and Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Megantereon | |
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M. cultridens skeleton | |
Scientific 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 | |
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Synonyms[1] | |
M. cultridens
M. falconeri
M. whitei
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