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12-11-2016, 12:37 PM( This post was last modified: 12-11-2016, 12:39 PM by Polar )
(12-11-2016, 12:11 PM)jacksonsmash Wrote: Owhich spiecies of prehistoric cats would they have competed with? They were contemporaries of machairodus if I remember correctly but did they survive long enough to live next to homotherium?
Mostly with machairodontines (saber-toothed felines) like Smilodon fatalis, but maybe even some much smaller felines and possibly marsupial predators (in South America) such as Thylacosmilus. From my research, Homotherium existed in North America about 1.5 million years ago (don't know when they died off), but then the latest borophagine fossil was found to be dated about ~1.9 million years ago? So, it is likely they wouldn't have met.