excerpt from the paperback "saber-toothed cats" of the Wiesbaden science author Ernst Probst:
Machairodus: The saber-toothed cat by the Ur-Rhine
In Europe, Asia, Africa and North America lived by the Middle Miocene some 15 million years ago until the end of the Pliocene, some 2.6 million years, various kinds of saber-toothed cat Machairodus. It thus has around twelve million
years and thus lasts longer than all other genera of true saber-toothed cats. The geological Recent finds of Machairodus came in North Africa (Tunisia) to light.
Machairodus The genus was investigated in 1833 by the zoologist and paleontologist Johann Jakob Kaup
(1803-1873), who worked at the Grand Ducal
natural history collection in Darmstadt,
first described scientifically. He
it had an upper canine pre-set (Fang and canine) from
Eppelsheim at Alzey in Rheinhessen.
The genus name is based on the Greek Machairodus
word "Machaira" for a sword-like, in the classical Greece
employed as a butcher knife device and the
"odon" term (secondary design of "Odous") for a tooth. This is, to German
Machairodus about as much as "butcher knife tooth".
For the genus Machairodus krummsäbelige
canines are characteristic finely serrated edges. These edges
used already within a few years. The canines were markedly
Machairodus of the upper jaw
longer than those in the mandible. In contrast to the later occurring dagger-toothed cat Smilodon
wore Machairodus
shorter canines, but they were longer than current
big cats. Machairodus is - as mentioned - the saber-toothed cats ("scimitar cats" or "saber-toothed cats") expected.
Kaup has 1832, the saber-toothed cats Machairodus aphanistus
and Machairodus cultridens and the dagger-toothed cat
Paramachairodus ogygius to findings from some ten million
year-old deposits of the ancient Rhine at Eppelsheim
(Kreis Alzey-Worms) described in Rheinhessen. The
belongs there by Fossils surviving animals in the
Vallesian (about 11.1 to 8.7 million years), a period of late Miocene corresponds
that after a typical mammalian fauna
in the Valles Penedes, near Barcelona in Catalonia (Spain) is described
. The level Vallesian in 1950 by English paleontologists
Miguel Crusafont-Pairo (1910 -
1983) suggested.
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