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| Homotherium Temporal range: Early Pliocene to Late Pleistocene,
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| Skeleton of H. serum from Friesenhahn cave, Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | †Machairodontinae |
| Tribe: | †Homotherini |
| Genus: | †Homotherium Fabrini, 1890 |
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| Homotherium latidens Owen, 1846
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Homotherium is an extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America, South America, Eurasia, and Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs from around 4 million to 12,000 years ago.[1][2] It was one of the last surviving members of the subfamily alongside the more famous sabertooth Smilodon, to which it was distantly related. It was a large cat, comparable in size to a lion. In comparison to Smilodon, the canines of Homotherium were shorter (though still longer than those of living cats), and it was probably adapted to running down rather than ambushing prey.
- ^ a b Antón, Mauricio. Sabertooth. Indiana University Press, 2013.
- ^ Turner, A. (1997). 'The big cats and their fossil relatives. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10229-1
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