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Homotherium is an extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America, Eurasia, and Africa, as well as possibly South America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs from around 4 million to 12,000 years ago. A probable descendant of Amphimachairodus, it was one of the last surviving…
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The extracted context around Homotherium shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Homotherium → After, Alaska, Blancan, California, Charles Bertrand Schultz, Charles Stephen, Churcher, Cita Canyon, Dinobastis, Early Pleistocene, Edward Drinker Cope, Eurasia, Eurasian, Idaho, In, Ischyrosmilus, John, John Campbell Merriam, Kern County, Larry Another extracted example is Homotherium → Across, African, Amphimachairodus, Asia, Badyarikha River, Before Present, Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, China, DNA, Early, Early Pleistocene, Early Pliocene, Eurasian, Eurasian Homotherium, Europe, In, It, Kanapoi, Kenya, Kolyma River. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 210 structured relationships around Homotherium. Examples in this analysis include Homotherium → is a → extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America and tigers → instance of → being in comparison to H. latidens relatively low and elongate.Compared to living pantherine big cats. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homotherium | is a | extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America | 0.90 | text |
| tigers | instance of | being in comparison to H. latidens relatively low and elongate.Compared to living pantherine big cats | 0.80 | text |
| lions | instance of | being in comparison to H. latidens relatively low and elongate.Compared to living pantherine big cats | 0.80 | text |
| Homotherium has a more elongate | instance of | being in comparison to H. latidens relatively low and elongate.Compared to living pantherine big cats | 0.80 | text |
| narrower skull with a more elevated snout region | instance of | being in comparison to H. latidens relatively low and elongate.Compared to living pantherine big cats | 0.80 | text |
| with the top of the skull | instance of | being in comparison to H. latidens relatively low and elongate.Compared to living pantherine big cats | 0.80 | text |
| Smilodon or Megantereon | instance of | Homotherium had shorter upper canine teeth than members of the machairodont tribe Smilodontini | 0.80 | text |
| but these were still longer than those of extant cats | instance of | Homotherium had shorter upper canine teeth than members of the machairodont tribe Smilodontini | 0.80 | text |
| Machairodus | instance of | broken upper canines - a common injury in fossils of other machairodonts | 0.80 | text |
| Smilodon that would have resulted from struggling with their prey - is not seen in Homotherium | instance of | broken upper canines - a common injury in fossils of other machairodonts | 0.80 | text |
| perhaps because their social groups would completely restrain prey items before any of the cats attempted to kill the target with their saber teeth | instance of | broken upper canines - a common injury in fossils of other machairodonts | 0.80 | text |
| or because the canines were less frail due to being covered | instance of | broken upper canines - a common injury in fossils of other machairodonts | 0.80 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Homotherium bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Pleistocene, Species and Late. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Homotherium, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Homotherium with Research history and taxonomy. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Homotherium to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Research & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Homotherium · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout