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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,546 Views) | |
| babehunter1324 | May 28 2016, 07:16 AM Post #3181 |
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Sheathed Sabertooth 2: Electric Canines-Are-Not-Tusks![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This one is actually over a year old. Edited by babehunter1324, May 28 2016, 07:46 AM.
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| heliosphoros | May 28 2016, 08:05 AM Post #3182 |
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Until proven otherwise, the lower lip pockets model (last and "huge chinned" ones) are the most plausible given the precendent (modern Neofelis) and the fact that most extnct saberteeth like thylacosmilids, barbourofelids, nimravids, gorgonopsids and some machairodontines all have lower jaw flanges. |
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| babehunter1324 | May 28 2016, 08:11 AM Post #3183 |
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I think it is deffinitivelly the most likely model for Machairodontids with large jaw flanges like Homotherium, Megantereon, Machairodus and even Amphimachairodus. But Smilodon... is different, it has larger canines proportionally than even Megantereon and much smaller bony lower jaws flanges... Which is weird considering that it is generally assumed that Megantereon is very close to the ancestry of Smilodon. I think the model showed in the second pic might not be far from the mark for the particular genus, that or Smilodon was the only member of the group with partially exposed canines which would kept moist by dripping salivation. Edited by babehunter1324, May 28 2016, 08:18 AM.
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| Jannick | May 28 2016, 06:03 PM Post #3184 |
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Papua merdeka!
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Wasn't it hypothesized that sabretooths (like modern big cats) would bite off meat from carcasses 'sideways', using their carnassials? If so, wouldn't enormous droopy cheeks get in the way? |
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| babehunter1324 | May 28 2016, 06:16 PM Post #3185 |
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That is actually a pretty good point, in theory the cheeks are capable to retract quite a lot but how the musculature would allow that is hard to tell... That said there was a reason why Machairodonts had portruding incissors, maybe they didn't depend on their carnasials as much as modern felids while eating? |
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| Incinerox | May 29 2016, 01:23 PM Post #3186 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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No, the protruding incisors were there so that each tooth type could do their standard jobs without the canines getting in the way or getting damaged. They'd have likely fed in more or less a similar manner to any other big cat as a result. With probably a bit more caution. |
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| CyborgIguana | May 29 2016, 01:26 PM Post #3187 |
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In any case, I can't imagine the first image could be correct. The others seem a bit more plausible. |
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| Jon Sam | May 29 2016, 03:03 PM Post #3188 |
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| heliosphoros | May 29 2016, 04:45 PM Post #3189 |
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There's a sad dearth of good Fasolasuchus pics, so this will have to do:
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| heliosphoros | May 29 2016, 06:16 PM Post #3190 |
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| Acinonyx Jubatus | May 29 2016, 09:52 PM Post #3191 |
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!
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Was Fasolasuchus really that gracile? |
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| BossMan, Jake | May 29 2016, 09:57 PM Post #3192 |
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Son of God
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I believe there is only know evidence of the snout so really it's the artist's mind in play here Still though it is a good piece of art! Edited by BossMan, Jake, May 29 2016, 09:58 PM.
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| heliosphoros | May 30 2016, 12:50 AM Post #3193 |
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I think the angle is to blame here. Fasolasuchus seems to be a fairly robust animal from everything I have read. |
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| Incinerox | May 30 2016, 06:47 AM Post #3194 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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I don't think Fasolasuchus is supposed to look like a rectangle filled with the words "posted image". |
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| Zoo Tycooner FR | May 30 2016, 07:55 AM Post #3195 |
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#Lithopédion
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