Smilodon fatalis

Smilodon fatalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SmilodonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Felidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 81 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 210 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 39 of 39 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 39 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences210 ka – 129 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Smilodon fatalis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

39 occurrences

These 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

7 formations

Tacubaya — 21.80°N, 102.30°WChapala — 20.30°N, 103.20°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WSan Pedro — 33.75°N, 118.28°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WSopas — 30.40°S, 57.33°W

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The named rock units Smilodon fatalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Smilodon fatalis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Smilodon fatalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

795 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Smilodon fatalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

30 references

Each of the 39 occurrences 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. 17 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content4

Picture of Smilodon fatalis

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Dantheman9758 at English Wikipedia
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CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

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CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
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the licence allows it
Specimen
Smilodon fatalis (Leidy)

Structured light scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Smilodon fatalis · LACM:rlb:HC 19920

3D model

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Sketchfab
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CC Attribution-ShareAlike
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1868)