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when did the saber toothed cat become extinct It became extinct 10,000 years ago in the Quaternary extinction event. what is smilodon? is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. how does it look like? It is well-developed forelimbs and exceptionally long upper canine teeth and its jaw has a bigger gape than that of modern cats. how did it get its name? Lund named it Smilodon populator which the Ancient Greek meaning of "Smilodon" as ("smilē"), "scalpel" or "two-edged knife", and "οδόντος" ("odontús"), "tooth".
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Smilodon [SEP] Taxonomy
During the 1830s, Danish naturalist Peter Wilhelm Lund and his assistants collected fossils in the calcareous caves near the small town of Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Among the thousands of fossils found, he recognized a few isolated cheek teeth as belonging to a hyena, which he named "Hyaena neogaea" in 1839. After more material was found (including canine teeth and foot bones), Lund concluded the fossils instead belonged to a distinct genus of felid, though transitional to the hyenas. He stated it would have matched the largest modern predators in size, and was more robust than any modern cat.