[HTCH022] Super rare species Saber Saber-toothed 18cm Dinofelis Mammals Fossil

Description

Species                 :
Dinofelis
(
This is the species preliminary judged by experts,
The actual situation is subject to the picture.
)
Age                        : 5
,000,000 to 1
,200,000
years ago, (
Pliocene–Pleistocene, 5–1.2 Ma)
Locality                  : East Asia
Fossil measures  : 18cm x  12cm x8.5cm = 7.1inch x 4.72inch x 3.34 inch (L*W*H)
Weight :1.35kg
Condition                : Some restorations and glued, I put some B72 to protect and strength the bones. This is 100% genuine.
Note                       : Due to manual measurement, there may be a slight error in length
This specimens are old collections which exported from China in middle 80's.
Wiki
Introduction:
In size they were between a modern
leopard
and a
lion
, with most about the size of a
jaguar
(70 cm tall and up to 120 kg), they were medium-sized but powerful cats with a pair of prominent saber teeth. The front limbs were particularly robust compared to modern cats (even the jaguar).
Two specimens were examined by
Serge Legendre
and
Claudia Roth
for
body mass
. The first specimen was estimated to weigh 31.4 kg (69 lb), the second 87.8 kg (190 lb).
[1]
The
canine teeth
of
Dinofelis
are longer and more flattened than those of modern
cats
but less than those of true
saber-tooths
, hence the designation of
Dinofelis
and
nimravids
as "false saber-tooth" cats. (However, Nimravids are not close relatives of
Dinofelis
.) While the lower canines are robust, the
cheek teeth
are not nearly as robust as those of the
lion
and other modern big cats.
[2]
Based on
Dinofelis'
likely preference of forest habitats, ethologist William Allen
et al.
believes it possessed a spotted or striped coat.
[3]
Their stout body may indicate a preference for dense or mixed habitats, although, like the modern
jaguar
, it may have ranged from forest to open country, including wetlands.
Analysis of carbon isotope ratios in specimens from
Swartkrans
indicates that
Dinofelis
preferentially hunted grazing animals. The main predators of hominids in the environment at that time were most likely
leopards
and fellow machairodont
Megantereon
, whose carbon isotope ratios showed more indication of preying on hominids.
[4]
Dinofelis
fossils and bones have been found in
South Africa
near those of the
baboons
that it possibly had killed. Bones from several specimens of
Dinofelis
and
baboons
were found in a natural trap, where
Dinofelis
may have been lured to feed on trapped prey. Several sites from South Africa seem to show
Dinofelis
may have hunted and killed
Australopithecus africanus
, since the finds mingle fossilized remains of
Dinofelis
, hominids, and other large contemporary animals. In South Africa,
Dinofelis
remains have been found near
Paranthropus
fossil skulls, a few with precisely spaced canine holes in their crania, so it is possible
Dinofelis
preyed on robust hominids as well. This may been rare, however, as carbon isotope ratios contradict this.
[4]
It is thought that the gradual disappearance of its forest environment may have contributed to
Dinofelis
'
extinction at the start of the
ice age
.
There are indications of other related species.
[5]
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