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	Dinofelis
		Dinofelis is a large cat that lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America approximately 5-1.5 million years ago.
		Dinofelis is an ancestor of the prehistoric cat Homotherium.
		Dinofelis is known as a "false sabertooth" cat because, instead of true saberteeth, it had what appears to be a cross between long, flat saberteeth and the cone-shaped teeth of the modern-day lion and other existing cats.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Dinofelis (169 words)

	Dinofelis - Definition, explanation
		Dinofelis is a genus of metailurini that lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America approximately 5-1.2 million years ago, most of which would have been in the Pliocene.
		Dinofelis is the most plausible ancestor of the prehistoric genus of cat Homotherium.
		Dinofelis is known as a "false sabertooth" cat because, instead of true saberteeth, it had what appears to be a cross between long, flat saberteeth and the cone-shaped teeth of the modern-day felines.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/di/dinofelis.php (165 words)

	Dinofelis
		Dinofelis is a large cat that lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America approximately 5-1.5 million years ago.
		Dinofelis is an ancestor of the prehistoric cat Homotherium.
		Dinofelis is known as a "false sabertooth" cat because, instead of true saberteeth, it had what appears to be a cross between long, flat saberteeth and the cone-shaped teeth of the modern-day lion and other existing cats.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Dinofelis.html (120 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dinofelis
		Dinofelis ("terrible cat") is a genus of Machairodontin saber-toothed cats belonging to the tribe Metailurini that lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America approximately 5-1.5 million years ago (most of which would have been in the Pliocene).
		Dinofelis is known as a "false saber-tooth" cat because, instead of true saber-teeth, it had what appears to be a cross between long, flat saber-teeth and the cone-shaped teeth of the modern-day felines.
		Dinofelis may have entered the trap to feed or may have simply wandered into the trap.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dinofelis (287 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Dinofelis, sabre-tooth cat
		Dinofelis is a sabre-tooth cat from a group often known as the 'false sabre tooths' as they had small sabres that were not as flattened and knife-like as those of other sabre-tooth groups, and were more like those of the group to which modern cats belong, which have conical teeth.
		Dinofelis is relatively rare, but its remains are found in many of the hominid fossil sites in Africa as well as sites in N America, Asia and Europe.
		Dinofelis' powerful front legs meant that it probably ambushed its prey and used the front legs to hold it down firmly whilst it made a clean kill with its teeth.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/450.shtml (209 words)

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		Dinofelis ("terrible cat") is a genus of Machairodontin saber-toothed cats belonging to the tribe Metailurini that lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America approximately 5-1.4 million years ago (most of which would have been in the Pliocene).
		In size it was between a modern leopard and a lion, being most likely about the size of a jaguar (70 cm, tall), a medium-sized but powerful cat that possessed two prominent sabre teeth.
		It is thought that the gradual disappearance of the forests in which Dinofelis hunted may have contributed to its extinction at the start of the ice age.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dinofelis (396 words)

	Dinofelis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dinofelis ("terrible cat") is a genus of Machairodontin saber-toothed cats belonging to the tribe Metailurini that lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America approximately 5-1.5 million years ago (most of which would have been in the Pliocene).
		Dinofelis is known as a "false saber-tooth" cat because, instead of true saber-teeth, it had what appears to be a cross between long, flat saber-teeth and the cone-shaped teeth of the modern-day felines.
		Dinofelis fossils and bones have been found in South Africa along with those of the baboons that it possibly killed.
	dearkitty.blogsome.com /go.php?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinofelis (270 words)

	IngentaConnect A revision of the genus Dinofelis (Mammalia, Felidae)
		IngentaConnect A revision of the genus Dinofelis (Mammalia, Felidae)
		A revision of the genus Dinofelis (Mammalia, Felidae)
		Dinofelis has a broad distribution, with material from all northern continents and Africa, the latter of which was the apparent centre of evolution of the genus.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/ap/zj/2001/00000132/00000002/art00260 (397 words)

	DINOFELIS
		The postcrania of Dinofelis show that the forelimb had a relatively short forearm, as in the case of leopards.
		Specimens of Dinofelis barlowi from Bolt’s Farm Pit 23 (perhaps about 2 million years old) were found with the remains of baboons.
		Dinofelis piveteaui is represented at Kromdraai A, in deposits which may be about 1.5 years old, together with fossilised remains of alcelaphines such as wildebeest.
	www.nfi.org.za /palaeo/dinofelis.htm (358 words)

	Dinofelis
		Dinofelis was a genus of cat about the size of a large leopard or small lion.
		Dinofelis is known from Eurasia, Africa, And North America.
		Dinofelis is sometimes referred to as a 'false saber-tooth', based on it's tooth shape which is somewhere between that of modern species and the true saber-tooths like Smilodon.
	www.bluelion.org /dinofelis.htm (291 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain - Machairodontinae (Sabre-Toothed Cats)
		Most of the species in this tribe are known only from fragments; no complete fossils or skulls have been found for many of these cats, and so the taxa of these animals is highly debatable.
		Dinofelis was the most well-known and best represented genus in this tribe.
		Metailurus was a related genus, and had a body type similar to Dinofelis, only smaller, and had slightly longer canine teeth.
	www.lioncrusher.com /Machairodontinae.htm (1318 words)

	Strange Nation - Dedicated to strange phenomena in Australia
		The hypothesis that Dinofelis was a specialist killer of the primates is persuasive.’
		Dinofelis predation is a possible reason for our ancestors to have moved out of the forests and into the savannas, allowing them to better avoid predators.
		There’s the Sasquatch of north-western USA and Canada, the Bunyip in Australia, the dolpohin man of Brazil, the Abominable Snowman of the Himalaya and, at a stretch, Nessie in that Scottish loch.
	www.strangenation.com.au /Articles/darkpanther.htm (4698 words)

	ABC - Science - Beasts - Dinofelis Factfile
		Dinofelis is relatively rare, but its remains are found in many of the hominid fossil sites in Africa as well as sites in North America, Asia and Europe.
		There were several species of this sabre toothed cat across North America, Europe and Asia as well as Africa.
		It was built like a modern jaguar, but with more powerful front legs which meant that it probably ambushed its prey using the front legs to hold it down firmly whilst it made a clean kill with its teeth.
	www.abc.net.au /beasts/factfiles/factfiles/dinofelis.htm (94 words)

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		Rainbow "tiger" (Ecuador SA): Known as the tshenkutshen to Ecuadorian natives, this is a rather strange feline.
		This could be a modern, much evolved, form of Dinofelis, or maybe it really is an otter like the iemisch, as it is said to have extremely otter-like feet.
		Dinofelis was an emmense member of the sabretooth group, known as a "false sabretooth" because of it's short blade-like canines (misidentified as tusks?).
	www.angelfire.com /bc2/cryptodominion/felids.html (2097 words)

	PREHISTORIC CATS AND PREHISTORIC CAT-LIKE CREATURES (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In South Africa, Dinofelis has also been found at sites along with Australopithecines, so it was probably a predator of our own ancestors.
		Dinofelis ("giant cat") had flattened canines considerably shorter than those of the sabre-tooths, scimitar-tooths or even dirk-tooth cats.
		They were smaller than Dinofelis, being leopard sized, but had longer canine teeth, intermediate between modern cats and sabre-toothed cats.
	messybeast.com /cat-prehistory.htm (7774 words)

	BBC - Science - Beasts - Dinofelis Factfile
		Dinofelis is relatively rare, but its remains are found in many of the hominid fossil sites in Africa as well as sites in North America, Asia and Europe.
		There were several species of this sabre-toothed cat across North America, Europe and Asia as well as Africa.
		It was built like a modern jaguar, but with more powerful front legs which meant that it probably ambushed its prey using the front legs to hold it down firmly whilst it made a clean kill with its teeth.
	www.pts.org.tw /~web02/beasts/factfiles/factfiles/dinofelis.shtml.894.html (93 words)

	Animal Prehistorique. Dinofelis. En Images
		Les avis sont partagés en ce qui concerne la sous-famille dans laquelle doit être rangé Dinofelis.
		Le genre Dinofelis a vécu du Pliocène supérieur au Pléistocène moyen.
		Dinofelis possédait des canines plus petites que celle de Smilodon et des machairodontes en général (les vrais félins à dents de sabre).
	www.dinosoria.com /dinofelis.htm (241 words)

	Paleontology - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
		These shelled eggs made them independent of aquatic reproduction.
		Dinofelis was a saber-toothed cat named for its frightful appearance.
		After the mass extinction that took place sixty five million years ago, dinosaurs never again dominated any important terrestrial predator niche.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/SciTech/Paleontology-65.html (365 words)

	Timeline of the Felidae
		Amongst the 'sabre-toohed' Machairodonts were the genus Smilodon, found only in the Americas and the genus Homotherium, the remains of which have been found in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
		Not all of the Machairodonts had sabre-like canines - the genus Dinofelis exhibited front canines somewhere between the sabre-tooth, which in the species Smilodon populator have been found to protrude some 17cm below the jaw and the length of the canines found in the modern 'big cat'.
		Naming the Species - find out how scientific names are applied to the different species
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /agarman/bco/prehistoric.htm (216 words)

	Eurozine - Biophilia: A History of Abuse - PM
		For you see, we ourselves have no unions, no guaranteed employment, no police to crack down on unlicensed trade, so we were defenseless against this new and unlawful competition.
		And while dinofelis was singing his song of woe at all the most fashionable watering holes, it had already grown too late.
		You've even developed a tame, pocket-sized dinofelis to lie purring on your lap and comfort away the fear its ancient ancestor snarled into you.
	www.eurozine.com /articles/2002-05-02-pm-en.html (1895 words)

	Bruce Chatwin
		Brain's analysis of fossilised bones raised the possibility that Early Man was not a savage cannibal, as had been generally held, but the preferred prey of one of the large cats with whom he shared the open grasslands of Africa.
		Around 1,200,000 BC the roles were reversed when homo erectus began to outwit his predator, the dinofelis or false sabre-tooth tiger.
		He lived his life in fear, dinofelis watching him from the shadows.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/shakespeare-chatwin.html (992 words)

	Cryptozoology.com
		I don't really know much about the sabretooths, but I reckon they ain't true cats, so maybe their feet are less cat-like than, say, a leopard or a cougar.
		It might be kind of interesting to compare that track with a cheetah, which only has semi-retractible claws.
		I went to the site the photo's on and it's a British science site that seems reputable, so if it says it's a Dinofelis I reckon it probably is. But it sure enough does look like a dog print.
	www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=17&pid=59336 (644 words)

	Walking with Beasts Information
		However, it notes that although the Australopithecus looks human, it still only has the mind the size of a chimpanzee's.
		Some of the topics explored in the episode are the close social bonds among the tribe, how they use grooming as a means of communication, and how they work together to forage for food and to defend one another from attacks from such animals as an angry male Deinotherium and the predator Dinofelis.
		Dinofelis: a large and powerful relative of the saber-toothed cat, bigger than modern day lions
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Walking_with_Beasts (2010 words)

	Megafauna - "First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction" - book by Baz Edmeades
		These cats –; members of the so-called “machiarodont” subfamily – were the sabertooth Megantereon, a “scimitar-tooth” called Homotherium, and a “dirk-tooth” known as Dinofelis.
		The combination of powerful forequarters and relatively gracile rear limbs, suggest that it was, like Megantereon is presumed to have been, an ambush killer.
		Dinofelis’ upper canines weren’t laterally flattened like those of Megantereon and Homotherium.
	www.megafauna.com /chapter12.htm (4693 words)

	WhiteLions
		Australopithicus is the name for a hominid or proto-human animal thought to have lived as long ago as 2.5 million years, during a massive glaciation.
		She relates an arresting thought of travel writer Bruce Chatwin, who wondered if “Dinofelis was a specialist predator on the primates” (p.
		In the complex picture she draws, the sabre-toothed tiger emerges as an ally to the human species who preyed on hominids, yes, but also allowed humans to become predators themselves.
	www.metahistory.org /WhiteLions.php (2705 words)

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