Distinct Predatory Behaviors in Scimitar- and Dirk-Toothed Sabertooth Cats

2018/10/01 by Borja Figueirido, Stephan Lautenschlager, Alejandro Pérez‐Ramos +2 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Anatomy #Biology #Canine tooth #Carnivore #Cortical bone #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Postcrania #Predation #Skull #Taxon #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.012

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Citations

• Co-existence of scimitar-toothed cats, lions and hominins in the European Pleistocene. Implications of the post-cranial anatomy of (Owen) for comparative palaeoecology
• New saber-toothed cat records (Felidae: Machairodontinae) for the Pleistocene of Venezuela, and the Great American Biotic Interchange
• Deja vu: the evolution of feeding morphologies in the Carnivora
• Survey over image thresholding techniques and quantitative performance evaluation
• Radiographs Reveal Exceptional Forelimb Strength in the Sabertooth Cat, Smilodon fatalis
• Behavioral implications of saber-toothed felid morphology

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• An eye for a tooth:Thylacosmiluswas not a marsupial “saber-tooth predator”
• Smilodon [wikipedia]