Saber Tooth Tiger Skull Museum Replica
Saber Tooth Tiger Skull Museum Replica
Pleistocene period, 2.5 Million years BP
A museum-quality composition reproduction skull of a Smilodon Fatalis (Saber Tooth Cat), from the Pleistocene period.
The La Brea Tar Pits are found at Hancock Park, Los Angeles where natural asphalt has seeped out of the ground for several thousand years. Animals would become trapped in the tar and be predated on by animals such as the Sabre Tooth Cat, which often become trapped as well. The bones of many extinct animals have been uncovered from the tar pits and have helped build up a picture of the fauna of the area. Smilodon lived in the Americas between two and a half million and ten thousand years ago; it was more robustly built than any extant cat, with particularly well-developed forelimbs and exceptionally long upper canines. Its jaw had a bigger gape than that of modern cats and its upper canines were slender and fragile, being adapted for precision killing, and hunted mostly bison and camel.
- 1.23 kg
- 35 x 18cm (13 3/4 x 7")
- Fine condition.
Provenance
Property of a Norwich, UK, collector.
