Homotherium

Japanese: Homotherium
Homotherium

…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 during the Pliocene and 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 cats in the broad sense. However, unlike Smilodon, they are distinguished by their somewhat shorter fangs and lack of notches on the edges. …

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Japanese:

…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。しかし,スミロドンとちがって牙がいくらか短かったり,縁部にきざみがないことなどで区別される。…

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