Paramachairodus
Name:
Paramachairodus
(near Machairodus).
Phonetic: Pah-rah-mak-air-o-dus.
Named By: Pilgrim - 1913.
Synonyms: Pontosmilus,
Protamphimachairodus, Propontosmilus.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora,
Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini.
Species: P. maximiliani, P.
orientalis, P. transasiaticus.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: About 58 centimetres tall at the shoulder.
Known locations: Bulgaria. China. Greece.
Spain. Turkey. USA.
Time period: Miocene to Pliocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several
individuals.
Paramachairodus
is a genus of sabre-toothed
cat that lived during the
Miocene/Pliocene. The Paramachairodus genus
represents one of the
first true sabre-toothed cats to appear.
Further reading
- Aspects of the functional morphology in the cranial and cervical
skeleton of the sabre-toothed cat Paramachairodus
ogygia (Kaup,
1832) (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene of
Spain: implications for the origins of the machairodont killing
bite. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 144 (3):
363–377. - Manuel J. Salesa, Mauricio Ant�n, Alan Turner
& Jorge Morales - 2005.
- Systematic revision of the Late Miocene sabre‐toothed felid
Paramachaerodus in Spain.Palaeontology,
53(6), 1369-1391. -
M. J. Salesa, M. Anton, A. Turner, L. Alcala, P.
Montoya & J. Morales - 2010.
- A new species of Paramachaerodus (Mammalia,
Carnivora,
Felidae) from the late Miocene of China and Bulgaria, and revision
of Promegantereon Kretzoi, 1938 and Paramachaerodus
Pilgrim,
1913. & PalZ. 91 (3): 409. - Y. Li &
N. Spassov - 2017.
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