Machairodus

Japanese: Machairodus
Machairodus

...It became extinct around 8000 years ago, in parallel with the extinction of the large animals that it preyed upon. The ancestral Machairodus was widely distributed in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America during the Miocene. Meganthereon and Homotherium , which lived in Europe, Asia, and Africa from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene, both had long, fang-like canines in the upper jaw and are considered to be closely related to Smilodon, and are sometimes treated as saber-toothed tigers in the broad sense. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Machairodus" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…獲物としていた大型獣の滅亡と並行して,8000年前ごろに絶滅している。先祖型のマカイロダスMachairodusは中新世にヨーロッパ,アフリカ,アジア,北アメリカと分布が広い。鮮新世から更新世にヨーロッパ,アジア,アフリカにいたメガンテレオンMeganthereonやホモテリウムHomotheriumは,いずれも上顎の犬歯が牙状に長く,スミロドンと類縁が深いものとされ,広義の剣歯虎として扱われることもある。…

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出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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