Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Ross Barnett, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza, J.W.F. Reumer, John De Vos, Grant D. Zazula, Doris Nagel, Gennady F. Baryshnikov, Jennifer A. Leonard, Nadin Rohland, Michael V. Westbury, Axel Barlow, Michael Hofreiter,
... Fulton T.L. Martin L.D. Shapiro B. Homotherium serum and Cervalces from the Great Lakes Region, ... two lineages of saber-toothed cats (Smilodon and Homotherium) in relation to living carnivores and find that ... genomes from one S. populator sample and three Homotherium sp. samples, including the only Late Pleistocene Homotherium sample from Eurasia [4Reumer J.W.F. Rook ... Late Pleistocene survival of the saber-toothed cat Homotherium in northwestern Europe.J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 2003; 23: ... ancient-DNA analyses, thus strengthening the evidence that Homotherium occurred in Europe over 200,000 years later ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2017 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Mauricio Antón, Manuel J. Salesa, Ãngel Galobart, Z. Jack Tseng,
... systematics of the Plio-Pleistocene scimitar toothed felid Homotherium have remained problematic after more than a century ... study of undescribed mandibular and cranial fossils of Homotherium from Pleistocene sites in Spain and Alaska provides ... the new material with the published fossils of Homotherium confirm the difficulty in dividing the sample into ... Eurasiatic record, while older, possibly Ruscinian fossils of Homotherium from East Europe display less reduced lower premolars ... a species-level division within the Villafranchian-Pleistocene Homotherium sample from Eurasia, which for now is best ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2013 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
... is used to describe the juvenile dentition of Homotherium serum. Analysis of thirteen juvenile dentitions of Homotherium serum Cope results in identification of eight stages ... teeth. These stages permit a direct comparison between Homotherium and modern felid dentitions. The eight stages progressively ... are made between deciduous and permanent teeth of Homotherium serum to aid in future identifications and to suggest a functional significance. The deciduous dentitions of Homotherium serum and Smilodon floridanus are compared and contrasted. ...
Tópico(s): Human-Animal Interaction Studies
1983 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Curtis W. Marean, Celeste L. Ehrhardt,
At least three species of sabertooth cats (Homotherium, Megantereon and Dinofelis) were sympatric with early Homo before 1·5 m.y.a. Sabertooth cats may have contributed significant scavengeable animal foods ... we report on a Pleistocene den attributable to Homotherium , a genus found in both Pleistocene Africa and ... the near exclusion of other species, suggesting that Homotherium specialised on the very young of mammoths in ... more abundant than other skeletal elements suggesting that Homotherium selectively transported parts of the skeleton away from ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
1995 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Human Evolution

Ross Barnett, Michael V. Westbury, Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, Filipe Garrett Vieira, Sungwon Jeon, Grant D. Zazula, Michael D. Martin, Simon Y. W. Ho, Niklas Mather, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Jazmín Ramos‐Madrigal, Marc de Manuel, Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza, Agostinho Antunes, Aldo Carmona Baez, Binia De Cahsan, Greger Larson, Stephen J. O’Brien, Eduardo Eizirik, Warren E. Johnson, Klaus‐Peter Koepfli, Andreas Wilting, Jörns Fickel, Love Dalén, Eline D. Lorenzen, Tomás Marquès‐Bonet, Anders J. Hansen, Guojie Zhang, Jong Bhak, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, M. Thomas P. Gilbert,
Homotherium was a genus of large-bodied scimitar-toothed cats, morphologically distinct from any extant felid species, ... patterns [10], which might be especially relevant for Homotherium since widespread mito-nuclear discrepancies have been uncovered ... cats [10]. To examine the evolutionary history of Homotherium, we generated a ∼7x nuclear genome and a ∼ ... and target-capture sequencing approaches. Phylogenetic analyses reveal Homotherium as highly divergent (∼22.5 Ma) from living ... relatively high levels of genetic diversity, suggesting that Homotherium may have been more abundant than the limited ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2020 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Mauricio Antón, Ãngel Galobart,
... neck musculature was studied in the felid sabertooth Homotherium latidens from the Spanish early Pleistocene site of Incarcal. Cervical anatomy of Homotherium was compared to that of modern pantherine cats, ... between neck function and killing behavior was investigated. Homotherium latidens possesses the structures associated with the canine ... muscle insertion areas in the cervical vertebrae of Homotherium does not support previous statements about unusually strong ... the greater relative length of the neck in Homotherium and other machairodonts, are interpreted as adaptations for ...
Tópico(s): Comparative Animal Anatomy Studies
1999 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Larisa R.G. DeSantis, Robert S. Feranec, Mauricio Antón, Ernest L. Lundelius,
The scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium was one of the most cosmopolitan cats of the Pleistocene, present throughout Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas until at least ~ ... contains some of the best-preserved specimens of Homotherium serum alongside an abundance of juvenile mammoths, leading ... hunted juvenile mammoths.1,4 Dietary data of Homotherium are rare, with their ecology inferred from morphological, ... in agreement with taphonomic evidence suggestive of a "Homotherium den"1,4 and morphological data indicative of ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2021 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Jordi Serangeli, Thijs van Kolfschoten, Britt M. Starkovich, Ivo Verheijen,
... rare carnivore species, the European saber-toothed cat (Homotherium latidens), were recovered. Here we present five teeth ... hominin impacts and use as a percussor. The Homotherium remains from Schöningen are the best documented finds ... and they are amongst the youngest specimens of Homotherium in Europe. The presence of this species as ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2015 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Human Evolution
Ross Barnett, Ian Barnes, Matthew J. Phillips, Larry D. Martin, C. R. Harington, Jennifer A. Leonard, Alan Cooper,
The sabretooths (Smilodon and Homotherium) and the American cheetah-like cat (Miracinonyx) were the top predators in Late Pleistocene America, but became extinct about 13 ... of cytb from a Yukon scimitar-toothed cat (Homotherium serum), another recent member of the Machairodontinae. Phylogenetic ... Figure 1; Supplemental Data) show that Smilodon and Homotherium fall outside the extant cats, the Felinae. This ... access to mongoose data. Work at UCLA on Homotherium was supported by an NSF grant to Robert ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2005 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Marc Anton, Ãngel Galobart, Anthony N. Turner,
... felids, the lion and the scimitar-toothed machairodont Homotherium latidens, poses intriguing paleoecological problems. We investigate the ecology of Homotherium latidens using an exceptional sample of postcrania from ... other machairodont species. Evidence of cursorial adaptations in Homotherium suggests a hunting technique different from modern cats ... to bring down large prey, implying group action. Homotherium would also have been disadvantaged in direct confrontation ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2005 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
Lars Werdelin, Raffaele Sardella,
... Province, South Africa identified as or associated with Homotherium is described. Parts of this material have been described as the earliest Homotherium, but it is here concluded that the material shares no apomorphic traits with Homotherium and is better referred to Amphimachairodus sp, indet. The earliest Homotherium known to date comes from the Odessa Catacombs, ... contrary, there remains a substantial morphological gap between Homotherium and its progenitors.
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2006 - | Palaeontographica Abteilung A
Lloyd A. Courtenay, José Yravedra, Darío Herranz‐Rodrigo, Juan José Rodríguez‐Alba, Alexia Serrano‐Ramos, Verónica Estaca‐Gómez, Diego González‐Aguilera, José Antonio García Solano, Juan Manuel Jimenéz Arenas,
... by machairodontine felids, such as the saber-toothed Homotherium latidens. Nevertheless, as will be presented in this ... the formation of the site, followed by Pachycrocuta, Homotherium, Ursus etruscus, and Xenocyon (Lycaon) lycaonoides. From this ... it can be seen that while Pachycrocuta and Homotherium were active agents in the formation of the ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
Georges D. Koufos, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Gildas Merceron,
... and size the Dafnero-3 specimen coincides with Homotherium latidens (Owen, 1846). The taxonomy, geographic and stratigraphic ... gives the distribution of the genus in Greece. Homotherium is referred from six Greek localities and its ...
Tópico(s): Cephalopods and Marine Biology
2020 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Geodiversitas
Rebekka Volmer, Christine Hertler, Alexandra van der Geer,
... tigers co-occurred with machairodonts (Hemimachairodus zwierzyckii and Homotherium ultimum) and the large Merriam's Dog (Megacyon ... zwierzyckii, M. merriami are 154 kg (comparable to Homotherium from Untermassfeld), 130 kg and 52 kg, respectively. ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2015 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
J.W.F. Reumer, Lorenzo Rook, Klaas van der Borg, Klaas Post, Dick Mol, John De Vos,
... d Murr, Germany, where an upper canine of Homotherium was found in a stratum dated to ca. ... we describe a well-preserved den- tary of Homotherium latidens dated by 14 C to be late ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
2003 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... far known from the Pleistocene of Java is Homotherium zwierzyckii (Koenigswald), which occurs in the Djetis fauna. The new form is certainly not a Homotherium, and may be identified as a member of ... at Choukoutien, Locality 1, where the two forms Homotherium ultimum (Teilhard) and Megantereon inexpectatus (Teilhard) are associated, ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
1962 - Naturalis Biodiversity Center | Zoölogische mededelingen/Zo¨ologische mededelingen
Cajus G. Diedrich, Donald A. McFarlane,
Four new saber-tooth cat (Homotherium) sites in Germany with new dental and postcranial bone material are different in their taphonomic context: 1. The Archaeological Middle Palaeolithic ( ... last MIS 7 glacial into the Late Pleistocene. Homotherium as hyena-like slow moving cat seems to ... presence of the well-developed supracondylar ridge distinguishes Homotherium well from Middle/Late Pleistocene lions Panthera leo ( ...
Tópico(s): Human-Animal Interaction Studies
2017 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Mauricio Antón, Gema Siliceo, Juan Francisco Pastor, Jorge Morales, Manuel J. Salesa,
... a more primitive atlas than its derived relative Homotherium, with a set of elongated, caudal cervical vertebrae ... shear-bite model and comparable to those of Homotherium. Such a powerful and flexible neck could provide ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2019 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Tatyanna Ewald, L. V. Hills, Shayne Tolman, Brian Kooyman,
Skull and tooth fragments of Homotherium serum recently recovered from the Wally’s Beach site (DhPg-8) in southwestern Alberta provide the first indications that scimitar cat ...
Tópico(s): Paleopathology and ancient diseases
2017 - NRC Research Press | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Joan Madurell‐Malapeira, Josep M. Robles, Isaac Casanovas‐Vilar, Juan Abellá, Pau Obradó, David M. Alba,
... displayed less cursorial adaptations than its purported descendant Homotherium. Les auteurs présentent la révision de tous les ... adaptations à la course que son descendant présumé Homotherium.
Tópico(s): Ecology and biodiversity studies
2014 - Elsevier BV | Comptes Rendus Palevol
Miriam M. Morales, Norberto P. Giannini,
... Pleistocene guild by including specimens of North American Homotherium serum. Size was the principal factor structuring ensembles. ... morphospace shrank after the extinction of Smilodon and Homotherium, but the configuration of the portion of space ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Mammalian Evolution
Donald A. McFarlane, Joyce Lundberg,
Teeth of Homotherium latidens recovered from late Pleistocene sediments, Kents Cavern, England have long been the source of controversy. H. latidens ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2012 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Archaeological Science
Ascánio D. Rincón, Francisco J. Prevosti, G. Parra,
... Here we report a new species of Machairodontinae Homotherium venezuelensis, nov. sp., as well as the first ... fossils from Orocual represent the first record of Homotherium for South America, indicating that scimitar-toothed cats ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... of the guild, such as the sabretoothed cat Homotherium latidens , the medium‐sized pantherine Panthera gombaszoegensis and ... for a last‐glaciation appearance – or reappearance – of Homotherium require assessment. During MIS 5a this guild seems ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2009 - Wiley | Journal of Quaternary Science
... of Tighenif, where some older elements linger on (Homotherium), beside some taxa of doubtful affinities, like a ... Hyaena–Crocuta, tout en conservant des survivants anciens (Homotherium). S'y ajoutent quelques taxons mystérieux, comme un ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2008 - Elsevier BV | Comptes Rendus Palevol
Lars Werdelin, Raffaele Sardella,
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2006 - | Palaeontographica Abteilung A
... les Carnivores Canis etruscus, Ursus etruscus, Megantereon megantereon, Homotherium crenatidens et Pachycrocuta. Grâce aux outils lithiques, principalement ... the carnivores Canis etruscus, Ursus etruscus, Megantereon megantereon, Homotherium crenatidens, and Pachycrocuta. Due to the stone implements, ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2005 - Elsevier BV | Comptes Rendus Palevol
... and bending stresses. Three Pleistocene carnivores, Smilodon fatalis, Homotherium serum , and Panthera atrox seem to have had ... limb bones had ‘bear‐like’affinities. Machairodus and Homotherium were cursorial, whereas Nimravides and P. atrox display ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
1996 - Wiley | Journal of Zoology
... silberbergi, along with archaic cats of the genera Homotherium, Megantereon and Dinofelis, are known from African Mid ... silberbergi, ainsi que les chats archaïques du genre Homotherium, Megantereon et Dinofelis, sont connus en Afrique à ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
1990 - Elsevier BV | Geobios
... the new material to be closely related to Homotherium from the Villafranchian of Europe. Dinobastis , from the ... Eurasia and North America, has close affinities with Homotherium and Ischyrosmilus . Five genera of machairodonts may now ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
1965 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Mammalogy