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| Skeleton on display at the National Natural History Museum of China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | †Machairodontinae |
| Tribe: | †Machairodontini |
| Genus: | †Machairodus Kaup, 1833 |
| Type species | |
| †Machairodus aphanistus Kaup, 1832
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The Knife Tooth Cat[3] (Machairodus) (from Greek: μαχαίρα machaíra, 'knife' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth')[4] is a genus of large machairodont or ''saber-toothed cat'' that lived in Africa, Eurasia and North America during the late Miocene. It is the animal from which the subfamily Machairodontinae gets its name and has since become a wastebasket taxon over the years as many genera of sabertooth cat have been and are still occasionally lumped into it.
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- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 103. Retrieved 31 December 2021.