Wiesbaden (cats environment) - In Germany, Wiesbaden is the only large city, were discovered in the territory of fossil remains of saber-toothed cats. Previously known three specimens of saber-toothed cats (formerly known Saber-toothed tiger named) from Wiesbaden. All three specimens were in the 600,000-year-old Mosbach sands to light. These alluvial deposits are named after the former village Mosbach between Wiesbaden and Biebrich.
The Wiesbaden discovered bones of saber-toothed cats is they are remnants of the great lion-type Homotherium crenatidens. Those saber-toothed cat reached a shoulder height of about 1.10 meters and a total length of about 1.90 meters. Males of this type weighed according to the Mainz zoologist Helmut Hemmer up to 400 kilograms, smaller females up to 170 kilograms.
1950, hid in the sands of Mosbach-Wiesbaden upper arm bone fragment, 1960 a femur fragment and 1963, the metacarpal bones of saber-toothed cat Homotherium crenatidens. These three bones are located in the Natural History Museum in Mainz, which has the largest collection of ice age animals in the Rhine-Main area. Read
this is the paperback "saber-toothed cat" (ISBN 978-3-640-32794-2) of the Wiesbaden science author Ernst Probst. This richly illustrated paperback is the Mainz cat specialist Prof. Dr. Helmut Hemmer, dedicated to the Wiesbaden-based paleontologist Dr. Thomas Keller and the Dutch mammoth expert Dick Mol.
Fossil remains of Homotherium crenatidens you know from Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia. Predatory contemporaries the saber-toothed cats from about 600,000 years ago, giant lions, jaguars, leopards and cheetahs.
Ernst Probst from the well is also published in 2009 Paperback "cave lions". That shows that in the Wiesbaden area 3.60 meters long giant lions roamed, were about two feet longer than today's lions in Africa.
orders of the pocket books "saber-toothed cats" and "cave lions" at http://www.grin.de
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