Joseph Leidy
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Joseph Mellick Leidy was an American paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist.
Leidy, c. 1870
Statue of Joseph Leidy by Samuel Murray
Smilodon
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Smilodon is a genus of extinct felids. It is one of the best-known saber-toothed predators and prehistoric mammals. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it was not closely related to th
Joseph Leidy
…dominated vertebrate paleontology research in Florida during the latter half of the 19th century. He described and published the newly discovered species Smilodon floridanus. In 1875, a woman's body was exhumed from a Philadelphia cemetery; her body was encased in adipocere. Examining her, Leidy originally reported that she…
Smilodon populator fossil, Tellus Science Museum 1
1869 lithograph of the holotype molar and maxilla fragment of S. fatalis
Comparison between the skulls of the machairodonts Homotherium, Megantereon, and Smilodon, by Mauricio Antón
S. fatalis skeleton at the US National Museum of Natural History