Smilodon

Smilodon is an extinct genus of machairodont felid. It is perhaps the best known saber-toothed cat and lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya–10,000 years ago). One of the largest collections of its fossils has been obtained from the La Brea Tar Pits. Three species of the genus are known; they vary in size and build.

Roles

• It played as Spinosaurus in the Pleistocene Park Series

Smilodon Species

• Smilodon fatalis
• Smilodon gracilis
• Smilodon populator

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Also See

• Dinofelis
• Machairodus
• Homotherium

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