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Taxonomy
Felis fatalis was named by Leidy (1868).
It was recombined as Trucifelis fatalis by Leidy (1869); it was recombined as Machaerodus fatalis by Lydekker (1884); it was synonymized subjectively with Smilodon populator by Berta (1985) and Berta (1987); it was recombined as Smilodon fatalis by Cope (1880), Hay (1902), Lull (1921), Merriam and Stock (1932), Slaughter (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Martin et al. (1988), Martin and Schultz (1988), Kurtén and Werdelin (1990) and Dalquest and Schultz (1992).
It was recombined as Trucifelis fatalis by Leidy (1869); it was recombined as Machaerodus fatalis by Lydekker (1884); it was synonymized subjectively with Smilodon populator by Berta (1985) and Berta (1987); it was recombined as Smilodon fatalis by Cope (1880), Hay (1902), Lull (1921), Merriam and Stock (1932), Slaughter (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Martin et al. (1988), Martin and Schultz (1988), Kurtén and Werdelin (1990) and Dalquest and Schultz (1992).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1868 | Felis fatalis Leidy p. 175 |
| 1869 | Trucifelis fatalis Leidy |
| 1880 | Smilodon fatalis Cope p. 854 |
| 1884 | Machaerodus fatalis Lydekker |
| 1889 | Machaerodus floridanus Leidy |
| 1896 | Smilodon floridanus Adams |
| 1902 | Smilodon fatalis Hay p. 780 |
| 1902 | Smilodon floridanus Hay p. 781 |
| 1907 | Smilodon californicus Bovard |
| 1908 | Smilodontopsis conardi Brown |
| 1908 | Smilodontopsis troglodytes Brown |
| 1918 | Smilodon nebraskensis Matthew |
| 1921 | Smilodon fatalis Lull |
| 1932 | Smilodon fatalis Merriam and Stock |
| 1932 | Smilodon floridanus Merriam and Stock |
| 1959 | Smilodon floridanus Lammers |
| 1960 | Smilodon trinitiensis Slaughter |
| 1963 | Smilodon fatalis Slaughter |
| 1963 | Smilodon floridanus Slaughter |
| 1965 | Smilodon californicus Kurten |
| 1974 | Smilodon floridanus Webb |
| 1980 | Smilodon fatalis Kurten and Anderson p. 186 |
| 1980 | Smilodon floridanus Munson et al. |
| 1983 | Smilodon floridanus Rawn-Schatzinger p. 49 |
| 1986 | Smilodon floridanus Forster and Spamer p. 192 |
| 1988 | Smilodon fatalis Martin et al. |
| 1988 | Smilodon floridanus Martin et al. |
| 1990 | Smilodon fatalis Kurtén and Werdelin p. 158 |
| 1992 | Smilodon fatalis Dalquest and Schultz |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Smilodon fatalis Leidy 1868
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Invalid names: Machaerodus floridanus Leidy 1889 [synonym], Smilodon californicus Bovard 1907 [synonym], Smilodon nebraskensis Matthew 1918 [synonym], Smilodon trinitiensis Slaughter 1960 [synonym], Smilodontopsis conardi Brown 1908 [synonym], Smilodontopsis troglodytes Brown 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Rancholabrean or 0.77400 to 0.01200 Ma
Collections (38 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Smilodon fatalis (123875) | |
| Pleistocene | Mexico (Jalisco) | Smilodon californicus (20285) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Smilodon fatalis (188670) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (California) | Smilodon fatalis (20272 20454) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Nebraska) | Smilodon fatalis (20375) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Maryland) | Smilodon californicus (20302) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Arkansas) | Smilodontopsis troglodytes (20290) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (South Carolina) | Smilodon fatalis (79919) | |
| Irvingtonian | Mexico (Aguascalientes) | Smilodon californicus (20283) | |
| Lujanian | Uruguay | Smilodon fatalis (212458) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Smilodon californicus (20639) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (South Carolina) | Smilodon fatalis (79757) | |
| Rancholabrean | Mexico (Sonora) | Smilodon fatalis (20495) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Oklahoma) | Smilodon fatalis (70136) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Indiana) | Smilodon floridanus (20600) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (Texas) | Smilodon fatalis (93103) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Alabama) | Smilodon fatalis (20584) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Smilodon floridanus (20638 74292 154805) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Quintana Roo) | Smilodon fatalis (212361) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Utah) | Smilodon floridanus (20641) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Smilodon fatalis (125085) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Tennessee) | Smilodon floridanus (63424 63427) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (Florida) | Smilodon floridanus (20608 154771) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Smilodon fatalis (152904) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Peru | Smilodon sp. (71346) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (Alberta) | Smilodon fatalis (232472) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Florida) | Smilodon fatalis (154722) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Texas) | Smilodon fatalis (230753) Smilodon sp. (85142) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Idaho) | Smilodon californicus (20569) Smilodon fatalis (20612) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Utah) | Smilodon fatalis (93326) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Tennessee) | Smilodon floridanus (63429) |