The tribe Machairodontini is a major lineage of felid sabertooth cats that flourished in the late
Cenozoic and included the top predators in the ecosystem of that time. As top predators …

The northern sector of the Teruel Basin (Spain) houses a dense and continuous record of
late Neogene mammal fossil sites, as well as numerous biostratigraphic and …

“A unique review of the many unusual and nearly worldwide occurrences of sabertooths and
their relatives over more than 50 million years.”—Choice With their spectacularly enlarged …

Background Studies of biological shape evolution are greatly enhanced when framed in a
phylogenetic perspective. Inclusion of fossils amplifies the scope of macroevolutionary …

A collection with several complete crania and mandibles recently found in the Latest
Miocene Xingjiawan Fauna, Yongdeng, northeastern China enables a re-discussion of …

The Yuanmou hominid site is a rare Late Miocene fossil locality in southern China, where
thousands of fossil specimens of the ape Lufengpithecus hudiensis have been found. These …

The Spanish fossil localities of Batallones-1 and Batallones-3 are two Vallesian (Late
Miocene) natural traps known for their high concentration of carnivoran mammals. These …

In recent years, advances in our understanding of feline relationships have cast light on their
evolutionary history. In contrast, there have been no phylogenetic analyses on machairodont …

We describe small-sized specimens of the metailurine felid Dinofelis from a new Plio-
Pleistocene site in North Africa. Dinofelis is a genus of saber-toothed cats mainly recorded …

In the present work we conduct a comparative study of the cranial and dental samples of the
early machairodontine Machairodus aphanistus from the Vallesian (MN 10) sites of …