Smilodon populator

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(04-26-2022, 04:58 PM)GreenGrolar Wrote: Book, Smilodon: the iconic sabertooth.

Wroe (2008) suggestes that Smilodon lumbar vertebrae are ursid-like in being shorter craniocaudally than most felids, but still have transverse processes oriented in the matter of felids, giving them BETTER ACCELERATION AND LESS STABILITY THAN URSIDS.

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https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fmBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT297&dq=Ursids+are+superior+than+felids&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Ursids%20are%20superior%20than%20felids&f=false

I know there  is data which says a smilodon has more robust limbs at parity. However, this might only apply when comparing smilodons with younger brown bears up to six to eight years old. Brown bears at nine years old are fully grown and more robust than their own kind at six years old. Smilodons reach their probably from 5 to 7 years old like modern days big cats.

bears in some areas probably are proportionally more robust than populator, but i think when it comes to the humerus and femur populator was proportionally more robust in both, although populators femur isnt more robust to the same degree as its humerus is Reply