Paramachairodus

• Europe
• Asia

• Paramachairodus Ogygia
• Paramachairodus orientalis
• Paramachairodus maximiliani (?)

Paramachairodus is a genus of extinct saber-toothed cats ( Machairodontinae ) that lived during the late Miocene of Eurasia. Long as she was known only by a few bone and tooth fragments, but in recent times numerous fossil remains were discovered, including complete skulls in Cerro Batallones, a spätmiozänen archaeological site near Madrid. Two leopard large species, Paramachairodus Ogygia (MN 9-10) and Paramachairodus orientalis (MN 11-13 ) are known. A third type, Paramachairodus maximiliani is considered by most authors as a synonym of Paramachairodus orientalis.

Remains of Paramachairodus Ogygia - after other notation also Paramachairodus ogygius - were already in the first half of the 19th century, discovered in deposits of the ancient Rhine at Eppelsheim in Rheinhessen. The ten million year old deposits of the ancient Rhine is called Dinotheriensande because they often contain teeth and bones of the animal 's trunk Deinotherium giganteum.

The original finds, after which the paleontologist Johann Jakob Kaup type Paramachairodus Ogygia first described, are still preserved in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. Paramachairodus Ogygia is expected again to the dagger -toothed cats ( dirk -toothed cats ). This cat reached a shoulder height of about 58 centimeters, a body length of about 1.20 meters and a weight of 28-65 kg. She was obviously an agile climbers and hunters.

Meanwhile, the species P. Ogygia is assigned to a different genus, and thus is called Promegantereon Ogygia.