What areas did the saber-toothed tiger inhabit?

Smilodon (pronounced /ˈsmаɪləˌdɒn/), sometimes called saber-toothed tiger is an extinct genus of large machairodontine saber-toothed cats that lived between approximately 2,5 million to 10,000 years ago in North and South America. They are called "saber-toothed" for the extreme length of their maxillary canines. The La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles trapped hundreds of Smilodon in the tar, possibly as they tried to feed on mammoths already trapped. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has many of their complete skeletons. Despite the colloquial name of "saber-toothed tiger", Smilodon is not closely related to a tiger, which belongs to another subfamily, the Pantherinae but is a member of the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae. The name Smilodon is a bahuvrihi from Ancient Greek: σμίλη, smilē, "knife" and Ionic Greek ὀδών, odon, "tooth"). It was among the largest felids, the heaviest specimens of this massively built carnivore may have reached a body mass of up to 400 kg ^[1].

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