Paramachaire mode

Paramachaire mode
Temporal occurrence
upper Miocene
approx. 11 to 5 million years
Locations
Europe Asia
Systematics
Laurasiatheria Predators (Carnivora) Feline (Feliformia) Cats (Felidae) Saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) Paramachaire mode
Scientific name
Paramachaire mode
Pilgrim , 1913
species
Paramachairodus ogygia Paramachairodus orientalis Paramachairodus maximiliani (?)

Paramachairodus is a genus of extinct saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) that lived in the late Miocene of Eurasia. For a long time it was known only for a few bone and tooth fragments, but more recently numerous fossil remains have been discovered, including complete skulls in Cerro Batallones, a late Miocene site near Madrid . Two leopard-sized species, Paramachairodus ogygia ( MN 9-10) and Paramachairodus orientalis (MN 11-13) are known. A third species, Paramachairodus maximiliani , is regardedbymost authors as a synonym of Paramachairodus orientalis .

Remnants of Paramachairodus ogygia - also known as Paramachairodus ogygius according to a different spelling - were discovered as early as the first half of the 19th century in deposits of the original Rhine near Eppelsheim in Rheinhessen. The approximately ten million year old deposits of the Ur-Rhine are known as Dinotheria sands because they often contain the teeth and bones of the proboscis Deinotherium giganteum .

The original finds , based on which the paleontologist Johann Jakob Kaup first described the species Paramachairodus ogygia , are still preserved today in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. Paramachairodus ogygia is now part of the dirk-toothed cats. This big cat reached a shoulder height of about 58 centimeters, a head trunk length of about 1.20 meters and a weight between 28 and 65 kilograms. She was apparently an agile climber and hunter.

The species P. ogygia has now been assigned to a different genus and is therefore called Promegantereon ogygia .

Systematics

† Saber-toothed cats

Tribus Smilodontini  † Paramachairodus 15 to 9 million years     † Megantereon 6 to 2 million years     † Smilodon 2.5 million to 10 thousand years      Tribus Homotherini  † Lokotunjailurus     † Homotherium 5 million to 10 thousand years     † Xenosmilus 1 million years Machairodontini  tribe  † Miomachairodus 12 million years     † Machairodus 11 million to 126 thousand years  Tribe Metailurini  † Adelphailurus 10 to 5 million years     † Pontusmilus     † Stenailurus 7 million years     † Metailurus 9 million to 11 thousand years     † Dinofelis 5 to 1 million years

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manual J. Salesa, Mauricio Antón, Alan Turner and Jorge Morales: Aspects of the functional morphology in the cranial and cervical skeleton of the saber-toothed cat Paramachairodus ogygia ( Kaup , 1832) (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene of Spain : implications for the origins of the machairodont killing bite . In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 144 Issue 3 Page 363-377, July 2005.
2. ↑ Manuel J. Salesa, Mauricio Antón, Alan Turner, Luis Alcalá, Plinio Montoya, Jorge Morales: Systematic revision of the Late Miocene saber-toothed felid Paramachaerodus in Spain. Paleontology. Volume 53, Issue 6, pages 1369-1391, November 2010
3. ↑ Manuel J. Salesa, Mauricio Antón, Alan Turner and Jorge Morales: Functional anatomy of the forelimb in Promegantereon * ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini) from the Late Miocene of Spain and the origins of the sabre-toothed felid model . J. Anat. (2010) 216, pp. 381-396