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Taowu liui
202155202155Taowu (†Taowu (Jiangzuo, Werdelin, and Sun et al., 2022))
Order: Carnivore.
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Machairodontinae
Size: 1,6 m in length, 80 cm in height, 45-95 kg of weight.
Time period: Early Pleistocene 2.5 Ma (East Asia)
Taowu is an extinct genus of machairodonts, a type of saber-toothed cat. It lived during the Early Pleistocene about 2.5 million years ago in East Asia. Found so far is a nearly complete skull of 23.5 cm length and 13.4 cm width, measured across the zygomatic arches. Based on this, a relatively small representative of the saber-toothed cats can be reconstructed, which only reached the size of a present-day leopard. In its dentition characteristics, it mediates between phylogenetic older forms such as Amphimachairodus and younger members such as Homotherium. The genus was scientifically described in 2022, but the find material was recovered as early as the 1930s.
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Taowu (†Taowu (Jiangzuo, Werdelin, and Sun et al., 2022))
Order: Carnivore.
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Machairodontinae
Size: 1,6 m in length, 80 cm in height, 45-95 kg of weight.
Time period: Early Pleistocene 2.5 Ma (East Asia)
Taowu is an extinct genus of machairodonts, a type of saber-toothed cat. It lived during the Early Pleistocene about 2.5 million years ago in East Asia. Found so far is a nearly complete skull of 23.5 cm length and 13.4 cm width, measured across the zygomatic arches. Based on this, a relatively small representative of the saber-toothed cats can be reconstructed, which only reached the size of a present-day leopard. In its dentition characteristics, it mediates between phylogenetic older forms such as Amphimachairodus and younger members such as Homotherium. The genus was scientifically described in 2022, but the find material was recovered as early as the 1930s.
1-346x277.jpg "Homotherium latidens")
-346x277.jpg "Homotherium crenatidens")
