Megantereon

Megantereon was a 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.

Megantereon
Temporal range:
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
  • †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

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
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