%0 Journal Article
%A Geraads, Denis
%A Spassov, Nikolaï
%+ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T A skull of Machairodus Kaup, 1833 (Felidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Hadjidimovo (Bulgaria), and its place in the evolution of the genus : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-6341-1
%R 10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a9
%D 2020
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The late Miocene locality Hadjidimovo in Southwestern Bulgaria has yielded a huge collection of mammalian fossils, including a complete skull of MachairodusKaup, 1833, first described (in Bulgarian) by Kovachev (2002). We re-describe it here, compare it with other Machairodus, and review the evolution of the genus. We conclude that the transition from M. aphanistus (Kaup, 1832) to M. giganteus (Wagner, 1848) is gradual and mosaic, that assigning these species to different genera fails to reflect this relationship, and that the Hadjidimovo skull represents a rather late evolutionary stage of this lineage.
%K Bulgaria, Late Miocene, Machairodontinae, saber-tooth felid
%J Geodiversitas
%V 42
%N 9
%& 123
%P 123 - 137
%I Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
%C Paris