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Introduction
Dinofelis Classification Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Sub-embr. Vertebrata Class Mammalia Subclass Theria Infraclass Eutheria Order Carnivora Suborder Feliformia Family Felidae Subfamily Machairodontinae Tribe Metailurini Genus Dinofelis
Zdansky, 1924
Dinofelis was a genus of feline the size of a panther that lived in the Pliocene (The Pliocene is the second epoch of the Neogene period. It…) (between -5 and -1.4 million (One million (1 000,000) is the natural number following nine hundred and ninety-nine…) years). It was a formidable carnivore called “saber-toothed” even if the canines of Dinofelis are not as spectacular as those of its famous cousin, the Smilodon (The smilodon or saber-toothed tiger is an animal of the Felidae family Who…).
Etymology
Dinofelis comes from the ancient Greek “deino-” and from the ancient Greek “-felis”, which means “terrible feline (Le Terrible was a 2nd rank ship of the line and 78 guns, designed by François Coulomb,…)”.
Discovery
Specimens of Dinofelis have been discovered all over the world (The word world can designate:). (Europe, Asia (Asia is one of the five continents or part of the supercontinents Eurasia or Afro-Eurasia of…), America (America is a continent separated, to the west, from Asia and …) from the North (North is a cardinal point, opposite to South.) and Africa).
Systematic
Species
The genus Dinofelis included 3 species:
Dinofelis paleoonca Dinofelis piveteaui Dinofelis barlowi
Paleoecology
hunting mode
Not being made for running (Running: This word has several meanings, all having to do with movement.), Dinofelis had to lie in ambush to surprise his prey (A prey is an organism captured alive, killed and then consumed by another,…). Dinofelis hunted animals of small or medium (The average is a statistical measure characterizing the elements of a set of…) size such as young antelopes or horses, pigs, primates (Primates (from the Latin primas, atis meaning “the one who occupies the first…) such as baboons and hominids such as Australopithecus (An Australopithecus is an extinct hominid having lived between approximately 4.4 million and…) In order to eat its prey quietly, it had to hide it in a cave or roost it in a tree (A tree is a terrestrial plant capable of developing by itself in height, in…) like leopards.
Disappearance
At the start of the Ice Age, the forests gradually receded, giving way to plains and savannahs. No longer able to camouflage itself in its environment (The environment is everything that surrounds us. It is all the natural elements and …), the Dinofelis could no longer hunt its prey because of its inability to run quickly. It then disappeared with its ecosystem, having been unable to adapt.
Paleobiology
Description
Dinofelis was a cat as big as a panther. Like most other primitive felines, it had saber teeth which were however much shorter than those of its illustrious extinct cousins ​​(Smilodon, Homotherium, Eusmilus…). This predator (A predator is a living organism that kills prey for food or for…) of the forested regions of Eurasia, Africa (With an area of ​​30,221,532 km2 including the islands ,…) and America, was 70 cm high and 1.20 m long and stalked its prey silently before jumping on them to bring them down with its sharp teeth and claws. .
The Dinofelis in popular culture
We see a Dinofelis on the train (A train is a guided vehicle traveling on rails. A train is composed of…) to hunt Australopithecus in In the Land of Lost Monsters.
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