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Homotherium latidens

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Homotherium latidens is the European Sabertooth cat, it had similar size to Homotherium serum but it was found in Europe, its post cranial anatomy is well known thanks largely to a nearly complete skeleton from the site of Seneze, in France, and to a large composite sample from the Spanish site of Incarcal. These and other finds reveal this species to have been a lion sized sabertooth with forelimbs slightly more elongated than those of a lion and with a relatively longer neck and shorter back and tail. It had strongly muscular forelimbs adapted to handle large prey, armed with a huge dew claw, but it also had clear adaptations for sustained locomotion on open ground, including a reduction in the size and retractability of the claws. It was considerably lighter than the Pleistocene Lions with which it shared the habitats of middle Pleistocene Europe.
Information and pictures taken from the book SABERTOOTH (Mauricio Anton)


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Homotherium latidens - epaiva - 12-12-2017, 05:31 AM
RE: Homotherium latidens - epaiva - 12-12-2017, 05:42 AM
RE: Homotherium latidens - epaiva - 05-05-2020, 01:27 AM
RE: Homotherium latidens - Sully - 10-16-2020, 04:07 AM
RE: Homotherium latidens - Spalea - 10-16-2020, 12:53 PM
RE: Homotherium latidens - Matias - 10-23-2020, 07:49 AM
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RE: Homotherium latidens - Sully - 12-27-2020, 04:46 PM
RE: Homotherium latidens - epaiva - 08-16-2021, 08:10 PM
RE: Homotherium latidens - tigerluver - 04-14-2022, 07:48 AM



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