Morphology
Miomachairodus was generally small, and the canines already began to show the flattening that would soon advance into the distinct "saber-tooth" design of the more advanced machairodonts. Miomachairodus was not the ancestor to all machairodonts; this title most likely rested with Pseudaelurus. This genus is thought to be ancestral to both machairodontinae and felini, the clades of saber-toothed and conical-toothed (modern) felids.
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