machairodus

• Was it machairodus, one of the leonine sabertooth cats that were the commonest large predators of the Pliocene? —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• The noise of the battle awoke the machairodus negasus, the horplophorus ornatus, and the pareiasaurus serridens. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• In a similar way the _extinct_ machairodus, or sabre-toothed tiger, is characterized by a more highly differentiated and specially carnivorous dentition than is shown by any predacious beast of the _present day_. —  On the Genesis of Species
• In the machairodus there is no upper true molar at all, while the premolars are reduced to two, there being only these two teeth above, on each side, behind the canine. —  On the Genesis of Species

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