Smilodon - Wikipedia Smilodon is a genus of extinct felids It is one of the best-known saber-toothed predators and prehistoric mammals
Smilodon Facts, Habitat, Diet, Fossils, Pictures - Extinct Animals In 1830, the fossil of the Smilodon populator, a species of the genus Smilodon, was the first to be discovered and described in Brazil by Danish paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist Peter Wilhelm Lund In 1842, he named the genus as ‘Smilodon’
Sabre-toothed cat | Size, Extinction, Facts | Britannica The most widely known genus of sabre-toothed cats is Smilodon, the “sabre-toothed tiger ” A large, short-limbed cat that lived in North and South America during the Pleistocene Epoch, it was about the size of the modern African lion (Panthera leo) and represents the peak of sabre-tooth evolution
Saber-Toothed Cat (Smilodon) - GeoKansas Saber-Toothed Cat (Smilodon) Despite their name, the extinct saber-toothed cats are only very distantly related to lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, Siamese, and other living cats
Sabertooth - National Geographic Society And there was certainly nothing cuddly about Smilodon fatalis The name means deadly knife tooth, but the precise purpose of these finely-serrated fangs is still a mystery Smilodon first shows up about two million years ago It ranged widely all over North and South America
Smilodon, Saber-Tooths, and Tigers…Oh My! | La Brea Tar Pits Smilodon has long been a symbol of the Tar Pits campus because that's where the fossils had been displayed for decades until the then-new Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries was opened in 1977, where the Smilodon became an icon for a new era of Tar Pits exploration
The Big Cats - U. S. National Park Service Smilodon was one of the last of the machairodonts, or Machairodontinae, an extinct branch of the cat family tree that evolved elongated saber-like upper canine teeth
Smilodon - Dinosaur Park Despite being commonly known as the “Saber-Toothed Tiger”, Smilodon and its relatives were not very closely related to modern tigers at all In fact, Smilodon was quite unique when compared to most modern cats and likely lived an equally unique lifestyle
Smilodon - Prehistoric Wildlife Smilodon has a very wide expanse in the fossil record with the earliest species S gracilis being known from the early Pleistocene till the Ionian stage about five-hundred-thousand years ago Not only is S gracilis the earliest species of Smilodon, it is also the smallest with weight estimates between 55 to