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M. Bravard described a skull with preserved sabers from the Mont Perrier site in France as the species Megantereon megantereon, He suggested that Ursus cultridens should be renamed Machairodus cultridens and should be restricted to cats with serrated saberteeth (as is the case with the Eppelseim tooth, but not the unserrated teeth from Valdarno). However, in an 1890 review of sabertooth cat remains from Tuscany, Fabrini used the species name Machairodus (Meganthereon) cultridens to refer to cats which had unserrated canine saber teeth like those

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