... Christian 2009Coincidence or evidence: was the sabretooth cat Smilodon social?Biol. Lett.5561–562http://doi.org/10. ... 0008SectionRestricted accessPalaeontologyCoincidence or evidence: was the sabretooth cat Smilodon social? Christian Kiffner Christian Kiffner [email protected] Google ... 0008"Coincidence or evidence: was the sabretooth cat Smilodon social?." Biology Letters, 5(4), pp. 561–562ReferencesCarbone ... seeps suggest sociality in an extinct sabretooth cat. Smilodon Biol. Lett. 5, 81–85.doi:10.1098/ ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2009 - Royal Society | Biology Letters
... craniomandibular shape changes in two morphologically derived sabercats, Smilodon fatalis and S. populator, were analysed using geometric ... and Sunda clouded leopard. Ontogenetic shape changes in Smilodon usually involved the same areas of the cranium ... observed in other mammals. However, in other respects Smilodon differed from extant pantherines. Their crania underwent much ... Ontogenetic shape changes in the two species of Smilodon are largely similar, but differences are also present, ... Several of the specialized cranial characters differentiating adult Smilodon from extant felids in a functional context, which ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2012 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Julie A. Meachen-Samuels, Blaire Van Valkenburgh,
The sabertooth cat, Smilodon fatalis, was an enigmatic predator without a true living analog. Their elongate canine teeth were more vulnerable to fracture ... withstand loading.Using radiographs of the sabertooth cat, Smilodon fatalis, 28 extant felid species, and the larger, ... and torsion. We found that the humeri of Smilodon were reinforced by cortical thickening to a greater ... the much larger P. atrox. The femur of Smilodon also was thickened but not beyond the normal ... sectional properties of its humerus, we interpret that Smilodon was a powerful predator that differed from extant ...
Tópico(s): Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology
2010 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Tom Maddox, Paul J. Funston, Michael G. L. Mills, Gregory F. Grether, Chris Carbone,
... and Carbone Chris 2009Sociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: arguments favour 'evidence' over 'coincidence'Biol. Lett.5563– ... rsbl.2009.0261SectionRestricted accessPalaeontologySociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: arguments favour 'evidence' over 'coincidence' Blaire Van Valkenburgh ... rsbl.2009.0261"Sociality in Rancho La Brea Smilodon: arguments favour 'evidence' over 'coincidence'." Biology Letters, 5( ... seeps suggest sociality in an extinct sabretooth cat, Smilodon. Biol. Lett. 5, 81–85. (doi:10.1098/ ... C.. 2009Coincidence or evidence: was the sabretooth cat Smilodon social?Biol. Lett. 4, 561–562. (doi:10. ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2009 - Royal Society | Biology Letters
Sherman McCall, Virginia Naples, Larry D. Martin,
... been suggested that saber-tooth species such as Smilodon fatalis were social because partially healed skeletal injuries ... locomotion. Finally, the relatively small brain found in Smilodon is not consistent with sociality. Another argument for sociality has been the large ratio of Smilodon to other species in the La Brea tar ... eagle (Aquila chrysaetus), are about as common as Smilodon. Contrariwise, the highly social grey wolf (Canis lupus) ... rare. Available evidence does not support sociality in Smilodon.
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2003 - Karger Publishers | Brain Behavior and Evolution
Steven C. Wallace, Richard C. Hulbert,
... however, as the sister-taxon to Megantereon and Smilodon. Accordingly, we formally describe Rhizosmilodon fiteae gen. et sp. nov. Rhizosmilodon, Megantereon, and Smilodon ( = Smilodontini) share synapomorphies relative to their sister-taxon ... all more primitive states than in Megantereon and Smilodon. The former also differs from Megantereon and Smilodon gracilis by having a very small mandibular flange. ... in parallel during the Blancan, Megantereon hesperus and Smilodon gracilis. The former is rarer, known only from ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2013 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
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 ... an early ancient DNA study tentatively suggested that Smilodon was a member of the Felinae and thus ... generate mitochondrial DNA sequences from several specimens of Smilodon populator from Patagonia and a M. trumani specimen ... Phylogenetic analyses (Figure 1; Supplemental Data) show that Smilodon and Homotherium fall outside the extant cats, the ... van Bree (Zoological Museum Amsterdam) for access to Smilodon samples, Lars Werdelin (Swedish Museum of Natural History) ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2005 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Antonia E. Tejada-Flores, Christopher A. Shaw,
ABSTRACT An extensive growth series of Smilodon skulls and mandibles from Rancho La Brea is divided into ontogenetic stages based on tooth-eruption pattern and occlusal wear. Eruption sequence is compared between Smilodon and Felis leo and an attempt is made ... Felis leo, the distinctive tooth-eruption sequence of Smilodon reflects differences in function. The lack of specimens ... La Brea was not preferred for denning by Smilodon.
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
1984 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Hervé Bocherens, Martin Cotte, Ricardo A. Bonini, Daniel Scian, Pablo Straccia, Leopoldo Héctor Soibelzon, Francisco J. Prevosti,
The sabretooth cat Smilodon populator was the largest felid in South America. It appears in the fossil record in the Early Pleistocene, as ... of collagen were measured for skeletal remains from Smilodon specimens ranging in age from 25 to 10 ... cervids, and rodents, it could be established that Smilodon consumed essentially large prey from open landscape, such ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2016 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Miriam M. Morales, Norberto P. Giannini,
... when machairodontines were present, we added specimens of Smilodon fatalis and S. populator to a morphological dataset ... correction for size) of both ensembles, past (with Smilodon) and present (with Smilodon lost to extinction). Canonical Phylogenetic Ordination was performed ... The felid morphospace shrank after the extinction of Smilodon and Homotherium, but the configuration of the portion ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Mammalian Evolution
Chris Carbone, Tom Maddox, Paul J. Funston, Michael G. L. Mills, Gregory F. Grether, Blaire Van Valkenburgh,
... wolf Canis dirus (51%), and the sabretooth cat Smilodon fatalis (33%). As in the playbacks, a smaller ... solitary species were rare (<4%). The predominance of Smilodon and other striking similarities between playbacks and the fossil record support the conclusion that Smilodon was social.
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2008 - Royal Society | Biology Letters
Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Mark F. Teaford, Alan Walker,
... features are examined in the extinct sabretooth cat Smilodon fatalis and among eight species of extant large ... distinct from all of the sampled extant carnivores. Smilodon has relatively narrow, long features and an extremely low pit frequency. Thus Smilodon probably consumed less bone than does the cheetah ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
1990 - Wiley | Journal of Zoology
Borja Figueirido, Stephan Lautenschlager, Alejandro Pérez‐Ramos, Blaire Van Valkenburgh,
... reveal exceptional forelimb strength in the sabertooth cat, Smilodon fatalis.PLoS ONE. 2010; 5: e11412Crossref PubMed Scopus ( ... their prey [14Akersten W.A. Canine function in Smilodon (Mammalia, Felidae, Machairodontinae).Contrib. Sci. 1985; 356: 1- ... scimitar-toothed Homotherium serum and the dirk-toothed Smilodon fatalis using a comparative sample of living carnivores ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2018 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Eric Scott, Kathleen B. Springer,
... to the species Canis dirus (dire wolf) and Smilodon fatalis (sabre-toothed cat) represent the first confirmed ... the fossils prevents assignment to other species of Smilodon. The confirmed presence of S. fatalis in the ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2016 - PeerJ, Inc. | PeerJ
M. Aleksander Wysocki, Robert S. Feranec, Z. Jack Tseng, Christopher S. Bjornsson,
... superb fossil record of the saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, ontogenetic age determination for this and other ... eruption rate for the permanent upper canines in Smilodon fatalis. The results imply an eruption rate of ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2015 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Per Christiansen, John Harris,
... analysis of extant Panthera and the sabertoothed felid Smilodon fatalis. S. fatalis has been reported to show ... Many morphometric-sexually dimorphic characters in Panthera and Smilodon are related to bite strength and presumably to ...
Tópico(s): Morphological variations and asymmetry
2012 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Alfredo Prieto, Rafael Labarca, Víctor Sierpe,
... commonly found in the paleontological record.One genus, Smilodon, is of particular interest because its presence in ... fossil dental evidence that supports the presence of Smilodon populator (Lund) in the region.This evidence corresponds ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2010 - BioMed Central | Revista chilena de historia natural
Mauricio Antón, Rosa Garcı́a-Perea, Alan Turner,
... like restorations of the American Pleistocene sabretooth genus Smilodon prepared by Charles Knight under the direction of ... decades until GJ. Miller criticized them, claiming that Smilodon should have looked very different from modern felids. ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
1998 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
... Middle and Late Pleistocene representatives of the genus Smilodon in South and North America are here assigned ... and subspecific versus specific differentiation are discussed. The Smilodon of the west coast region in South America ( ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
1990 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Mairin Balisi, Abhinav K. Sharma, Carrie M. Howard, Christopher A. Shaw, Robert Klapper, Emily Lindsey,
... a pelvis and associated right femur of a Smilodon fatalis saber-toothed cat, one of the best- ... consistent with a spectrum of social strategies in Smilodon supported by a predominance of previous studies.
Tópico(s): Veterinary Equine Medical Research
2021 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Víctor Manuel Bravo-Cuevas, Jaime Priego-Vargas, Miguel Ángel Cabral-Perdomo, Marco Antonio Pineda Maldonado,
... comparative study with selected specimens of Panthera and Smilodon indicates that the Hidalgoan sample shares the following ... genera (Felis, Miracinonyx, Panthera, Puma, Lynx, Leopardus, and Smilodon) and 11 species (Felis rexroadensis, Miracinonyx inexpectatus, Panthera ... Puma yagouaroundi, Lynx rufus, Leopardus pardalis, Leopardus wiedii, Smilodon fatalis, and Smilodon gracilis). The majority of these taxa have been ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
2016 - Wiley | Fossil record
ANA P. MORENO RODRÍGUEZ, Nicolás R. Chimento, Federico L. Agnolín, Guillermo Jofré, Adriel R. Gentil,
... be attributed to the Machairodontinae saber-toothed felid Smilodon. If correctly identified, this coprolite sheds light on predatory habits of Smilodon.
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2022 - Society for Sedimentary Geology | Palaios
The saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator, typical of the Pleistocene of South America, is known for its teeth, cranial bones, and post-cranial bones (humerus, ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2020 - | Palaeontologia Electronica
Aldo Manzuetti, Daniel Perea, Martı́n Ubilla, Andrés Rinderknecht,
... Age onwards. Among them, machairodonts of the genus Smilodon stand out. Three species are recognized, and all ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2017 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
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,
... history of two lineages of saber-toothed cats (Smilodon and Homotherium) in relation to living carnivores and ... the Machairodontinae, we find a deep divergence between Smilodon and Homotherium (∼18 million years) but limited diversity ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2017 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
... restes des deux grands carnivores Protocyon troglodytes et Smilodon populator du Pleistocene superieur : la Toca da Cima ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
2014 - Elsevier BV | Annales de Paléontologie
The jaw function of Smilodon fatalis has long been a source of debate. Although modern-day lions subdue large prey through the use of a ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2014 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Francisco J. Prevosti, Fabiana Martin,
... several extinct taxa such as the sabretooth cat (Smilodon), the Patagonian Panther (Panthera onca mesembrina), a short- ... felids that were large hypercarnivores, two of which (Smilodon, P. onca) could prey on most large mammals. ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2013 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Stephen Wroe, Uphar Chamoli, William C. Parr, Philip Clausen, Ryan C. Ridgely, Lawrence M. Witmer,
... saber-toothed species, the iconic North American placental, Smilodon fatalis, and the bizarre South American sparassodont, Thylacosmilus ... canines was closer to the jaw-joint in Smilodon, our results are consistent with both jaw-closing ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2013 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Agustín Scanferla, Ricardo A. Bonini, Lucas H. Pomi, Enrique Fucks, Alejandro Molinari,
... the horse Hippidion principale, the saber-tooth cat Smilodon populator (at least one adult and one juvenile ... the presence of cub and adult remains of Smilodon, link this felid with at least part of ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2012 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International