10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MACHAIRODONT»
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Paleoanthropology: Morphology and Paleoecology
These “normal” felids did not appear until the Pliocene, and did not really expand
until the extinction of the machairodont cats, triggered by the loss of
megaherbivores. These early “normal" felids probably behaved very much like
their ...
2
Primate Anti-Predator Strategies
... less arboreal than leopard scimitar-toothed machairodont striped, brown, and
Pliocene hyena African wild dog (L. pictus) or Pliocene scimitar-toothed
machairodont dirk-toothed machairodont giant hyena, robust bone-cracking teeth
cheetah ...
Sharon Gursky-Doyen, K.A.I. Nekaris, 2007
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United States Geological Survey professional paper
It is evidence of the extraordinary adaptability of the machairodont stock and the
effectiveness of the saber tooth mechanism that these animals were able to
continue on in any habitat, under such stiff competition. Nevertheless, the
balance ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), J. Kerry Arthur, Richard Erwin Taylor, 1950
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Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa
Figure 1.3 The 1993 excavation of the skeleton of the Lothagam machairodont.
This new species is the most common carniFigure 1.5 The field crew in 1991,
taking a rest from. vore in the Nawata Formation. laboratory studies. The volume
has ...
Meave G. Leakey, John Michael Harris, 2013
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The Other Saber-tooths: Scimitar-tooth Cats of the Western ...
... movement perpendicular to the blade (Burton, 1884). Machairodont (felid or “
true cat” saber—tooth) upper canines are not sharp enough to cut animal hide or
other connective and muscular tissues unless there is some associated slicing ...
Virginia L. Naples, Larry D. Martin, John P. Babiarz, 2011
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Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of ...
M. giganteus and other Turolian machairodonts showed further development of
the machairodont traits, such as larger, more flattened, curved upper canines and
bladelike, serrated teeth (figures 5.21 and 5.22; plate 10). A peculiar group of ...
Jordi Agusti, Mauricio Anton, 2013
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Out of Africa I: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia
Unfortunately, the lack of Asian specimens around the crucial hominin dispersal
period makes dispersals of Crocuta difficult to evaluate. Among the African
machairodont lineages present during the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa,
Megantereon (Fig ...
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Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle ...
The machairodont cat, Machairodus ( Amphimachairodus if we restrict
Machairodus aphanistus to the type specimen of Kaup from Eppelsheim as
preferred by Werdelin 1996) had a broad geographic and long chronologic range
. There are ...
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Giday WoldeGabriel, 2009
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth sciences
The new genus is less derived in its machairodont specialisations than are the
species A. africanus and A. turkanae, even though the presence of transversely
quite compressed upper canines with serrated crests shows that there was ...
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Rivista Italiana di paleontologia e stratigrafia
A machairodont specimen, most recently referred to M. aphanistus (Geraads et al
. 2002) is known from the Chorora Fm., Ethiopia (ca. 10.5 Ma). The specimen
consists of the symphyseal region of a left mandibular ramus. Petter (1994)
referred ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MACHAIRODONT»
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machairodont is used in the context of the following news items.
Creating life-size animal reproductions
Belgian animal sculptor Emmanuel Janssens Casteels works on a replica of a Smilodon, an extinct genus of machairodont felid, in his ... «Baltimore Sun, Dec 14»
A Living Sabertooth
Yet, whether creodont or marsupial, nimravid or machairodont, paleontologists have struggled to understand sabertoothed predators because ... «National Geographic, Nov 13»
