#+ a bunch of other animals who are NOT machairodonts

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sabercat genera whose teeth probably stuck out when their mouths were closed:

-megantereon

-smilodon

sabercat genera whose teeth probably did NOT stick out when their mouths were closed

-promegantereon

-machairodus

-amphimachairodus

-paramachairodus

-homotherium

-dinofelis

-xenosmilus

-lokotunjailurus

-literally most of them that aren’t classified as “dirk-toothed cats”

genera whose teeth probably stuck out when their mouths were closed but are NOT sabercats (or cats at all)

-afrosmilus(?)

-albanosmilus(?)

-barbourofelis

-hoplophoneus

-thylacosmilus (sparassodont. on thin fucking ice.)

-inostrancevia (hey you’re not even a mammal who let you in-)

(?)- these two are barbourofelids so it’s reasonable to assume that their dental morphology resembled barbourofelis itself but for the love of god i CANNOT find a single goddamn publicly available image or description of a specimen assigned to either of these taxa please fucking help me

incomplete list but thanks for coming to my ted talk