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16 April 2020 A skull of Machairodus Kaup, 1833 (Felidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Hadjidimovo (Bulgaria), and its place in the evolution of the genus
Denis Geraads, Nikolaï Spassov
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Abstract

The late Miocene locality Hadjidimovo in Southwestern Bulgaria has yielded a huge collection of mammalian fossils, including a complete skull of MachairodusKaup, 1833, first described (in Bulgarian) by Kovachev (2002). We re-describe it here, compare it with other Machairodus, and review the evolution of the genus. We conclude that the transition from M. aphanistus (Kaup, 1832) to M. giganteus (Wagner, 1848) is gradual and mosaic, that assigning these species to different genera fails to reflect this relationship, and that the Hadjidimovo skull represents a rather late evolutionary stage of this lineage.

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Denis Geraads and Nikolaï Spassov "A skull of Machairodus Kaup, 1833 (Felidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Hadjidimovo (Bulgaria), and its place in the evolution of the genus," Geodiversitas 42(9), 123-137, (16 April 2020). https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a9
Received: 28 December 2018; Accepted: 22 July 2019; Published: 16 April 2020
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KEYWORDS
Bulgaria
Late Miocene
Machairodontinae
saber-tooth felid
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