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Late Pleistocene survival of the saber-toothed cat Homotherium in northwestern Europe

2003; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1671/0272-4634(2003)23[260

1937-2809

J.W.F. Reumer, Lorenzo Rook, Klaas van der Borg, Klaas Post, Dick Mol, John De Vos,

Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) were wide-spread, top predators of the Pleistocene terrestrial ecosystem. In Europe, they previously were known only from the early and middle Pleistocene (Adam, 1961; Turner and Anton, 1997), and their fossils are always extremely rare. The previous youngest record was from Steinheim a/d Murr, Germany, where an upper canine of Homotherium was found in a stratum dated to ca. 0.3 Ma (Adam, 1961). In this paper, we describe a well-preserved den- tary of Homotherium latidens dated by 14 C to be late Pleisto-