Product Description
Our small plastic Smilodon (saber-toothed cat) toy is just the right size replica for your animal life shoebox diorama. This Smilodon (saber-toothed cat) model will fit in a shoe box along with examples of other Pleistocene or Ice Age animals. Add a dire wolf, a mastodon or a giant sloth, create a landscape with rocks, plants, grass, make a river or stream from anything that strikes your imagination, and there you go - a scene of life on our planet. Our plastic Smilodon or saber-toothed cat is made of solid plastic and is quite durable. Be sure to take a look at our other saber-toothed cats.
Smilodon is an extinct genus of machairodont felid. It is one of the most famous prehistoric mammals, and the best known saber-toothed cat. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it was not closely related to the tiger or other modern cats. Smilodon lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya–10,000 years ago). The genus was named in 1842, based on fossils from Brazil. Three species are recognized today: S. gracilis, S. fatalis, and S. populator. The two latter species were probably descended from S. gracilis, which itself probably evolved from Megantereon. The largest collection of Smilodon fossils has been obtained from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California.
