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Taxonomy
Machairodus was named by Kaup (1833).
It was synonymized subjectively with Drepanodon by Cope (1880); it was corrected as Machaerodus by Ameghino (1902).
It was assigned to Machairodontinae by Hay (1902), Bjork (1970), Sotnikova (1991), Martin (1998), Roussiakis and Theodorou (2003) and Peigne et al. (2005); to Felidae by Kaup (1833), Ameghino (1902), Carroll (1988), Werdelin and Peigne (2010) and Koufos (2012); to Homotheriini by Slater and Van Valkenburgh (2008) and Antón et al. (2013); and to Machairodontini by Berta and Galiano (1983) and Wallace and Hulbert (2013).
It was synonymized subjectively with Drepanodon by Cope (1880); it was corrected as Machaerodus by Ameghino (1902).
It was assigned to Machairodontinae by Hay (1902), Bjork (1970), Sotnikova (1991), Martin (1998), Roussiakis and Theodorou (2003) and Peigne et al. (2005); to Felidae by Kaup (1833), Ameghino (1902), Carroll (1988), Werdelin and Peigne (2010) and Koufos (2012); to Homotheriini by Slater and Van Valkenburgh (2008) and Antón et al. (2013); and to Machairodontini by Berta and Galiano (1983) and Wallace and Hulbert (2013).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1833 | Machairodus Kaup p. 24 figs. Plate 1, Fig. 5, 5a, 5c & 5e |
| 1902 | Machaerodus Ameghino |
| 1902 | Machairodus Hay p. 777 |
| 1970 | Machairodus Bjork p. 43 |
| 1983 | Machairodus Berta and Galiano p. 896 |
| 1988 | Machairodus Carroll |
| 1991 | Machairodus Sotnikova p. 362 |
| 1998 | Machairodus Martin p. 239 |
| 2003 | Machairodus Roussiakis and Theodorou |
| 2005 | Machairodus Peigne et al. p. 244 |
| 2008 | Machairodus Slater and Van Valkenburgh p. 407 |
| 2010 | Machairodus Werdelin and Peigne p. 651 |
| 2012 | Machairodus Koufos p. 58 |
| 2013 | Machairodus Antón et al. p. 1206 |
| 2013 | Machairodus Wallace and Hulbert p. 3 figs. Figure 2 |
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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.
G. †Machairodus Kaup 1833
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†Machairodus africanus Arambourg 1979
†Machairodus aphanistus Kaup 1833
†Machairodus catocopis Cope 1887
†Machairodus giganteus Wagner 1848
†Machairodus irtyschensis Orlov 1936
†Machairodus ischimicus Orlov 1936
†Machairodus kurteni Sotnikova 1991
†Machairodus lahayishupup Orcutt and Calede 2021
†Machairodus necator Gervais 1880
†Machairodus nihowanensis Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau 1930
†Machairodus tanneri Martin and Schultz 1975
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available