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2 summaries matching “lion” in Paleontology & Fossil Felids on nimravidae
Research overview: iterative evolution of the sabertooth ecomorph
OverviewThis overview synthesizes the striking pattern by which a sabertooth body plan evolved repeatedly and independently across unrelated lineages of predatory mammals. True cats (machairodonts), nimravids…
Research overview: the cat gap in the North American fossil record
OverviewThis overview examines the cat gap, a roughly seven-million-year interval in the Oligocene and early Miocene during which true cats are essentially absent from the North American fossil record, even t…