Pontosmilus
Paramachaerodus is an extinct genus of saber-tooth cat of the subfamily Machairodontinae, which was endemic to Eurasia during the Middle and Late Miocene from 15 to 9 Ma. A 2022 phylogenetic analysis suggested that the genus may be polyphyletic.
No picture of Pontosmilus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pontosmilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetailuriniPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Felidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 5.09 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pontosmilus on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Pontosmilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pontosmilus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pontosmilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Adcrocuta eximia1 site
- Amphiorycteropus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Cremohipparion1 site
- Deinotherium1 site
- Dihoplus1 site
- Elephantimorpha1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Gangraia1 site
- Gazella cf. ancyrensis1 site
- Hipparion dietrichi1 site
- Hippopotamodon major1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Miodiceros1 site
- Palaeoryx pallasi1 site
- Palaeotragus rouenii1 site
- Parataxidea maraghana1 site
- Protictitherium1 site
- Samotherium major1 site
- Sporadotragus parvidens1 site
- Testudinidae1 site
- Tragoportax1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pontosmilus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pontosmilus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pontosmilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pontosmilus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMetailurini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1929