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Dinictis squalidens - toe

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fossil toe bone of "false saber cat", mm 15 x 10 x 8.
The Dinictis, looked like a lot to felines, especially the skull, but in fact it belonged to an extinct family of carnivores much more primitive, the Nimravidae. Dinictis, the size of a puma, had a slender body and long, rather short legs and a skull with powerful jaws. Unlike the real felines, Dinictis and his relatives had plantigrade feet, like those of bears and dogs. This carnivore lived in the plains of North America between 40 and 30 million years ago, tending to ambushes primitive ungulates that at that time thriving as Protoceras and Merycoidodon. Among the features of Dinictis, to remember the elongation of the upper canine teeth, which resemble the development (without achieving it) than those of Smilodon, the tigers with saber teeth.  Various species of Dinictis are known, which have been found throughout North America. A relative, of a size slightly larger, is Nimravus.

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