Taxonomic and palaeobiological implications of a large, pathological sabretooth (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Lower Pliocene of South Africa

C Rabe, A Chinsamy, A Valenciano - Papers in Palaeontology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the most complete postcranial remains of a pathological, large‐bodied
sabretooth from the Lower Pliocene site of Langebaanweg 'E'Quarry (South Africa). The …

[PDF][PDF] Langebaanweg's sabertooth guild reveals an African Pliocene evolutionary hotspot for sabertooths (Carnivora; Felidae)

Q Jiangzuo, C Rabe, J Abella, R Govender… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Here, we describe and revise craniodental material from Langebaanweg 'E'Quarry (South
Africa, early Pliocene,∼ 5.2 Ma), which represents one of the largest and best-preserved …

[PDF][PDF] A saber-tooth felid from Coopers Cave (Gauteng, South Africa) and its implications for Megantereon (Felidae, Machairodontinae) taxonomy

A Hartstone-Rose, DJ De Ruiter, LR Berger… - Palaeontologia …, 2007 - researchgate.net
The early history of systematics research on the genus Megantereon led to a proliferation of
specific names for morphologically similar specimens, many of which came from …

On the presence of Megantereon whitei at the South Turkwel hominid site, northern Kenya

P Palmqvist - Journal of Paleontology, 2002 - cambridge.org
Werdelin and Lewis (2000) recently described a new species of the saber-tooth genus
Megantereon (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from Late Pliocene (∼ 3.5 Ma) deposits of the …

Morphology and composition of bone-bearing coprolites from the late Permian Beaufort Group, Karoo Basin, South Africa

RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Bone-bearing coprolites are fossilised faeces of carnivores and as such they provide
important information about food webs and feeding strategies of the ancient ecosystem. With …

The Plio-Pleistocene scimitar-toothed felid genus Homotherium Fabrini, 1890 (Machairodontinae, Homotherini): diversity, palaeogeography and taxonomic …

M Antón, MJ Salesa, A Galobart, ZJ Tseng - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The systematics of the Plio-Pleistocene scimitar toothed felid Homotherium have remained
problematic after more than a century of fossil findings in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas …

[HTML][HTML] New sabre-toothed cats in the Late Miocene of Toros Menalla (Chad)

L de Bonis, S Peigné, HT Mackaye, A Likius… - Comptes Rendus …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Toros Menalla Late Miocene Formation (7 Ma), Djurab desert, Chad, has yielded a
large number of vertebrate remains, and among them around twenty taxa of carnivores …

Carnivora from the Plio-Pleistocene hominin site of Drimolen, Gauteng, South Africa

HJ O'Regan, CG Menter - Geobios, 2009 - Elsevier
Drimolen is one of the newest and most productive hominin sites in South Africa, and is
dated on faunal grounds between 2.0 Ma to 1.5 Ma. This paper provides the first overview of …

Felidae from Cooper's Cave, South Africa (Mammalia: Carnivora)

HJ O'Regan, C Steininger - Geodiversitas, 2017 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The Cooper's Cave System has produced a diverse fossil assemblage including
the remains of Paranthropus robustus, and early Homo. The majority of the faunal remains …

New sabre toothed Felidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) in the hominid-bearing sites of Toros Menalla (late Miocene, Chad)

L de BONIS, S Peigné, HT Mackaye, A Likius… - Geodiversitas, 2018 - BioOne
The late Miocene fossil-bearing localities of Toros Menalla (Chad) have yielded a huge
amount of vertebrate remains with, in particular, the hominid Sahelanthropus tchadensis …