Saber-Toothed Cat (NHMW-Geo 2016/0066/0001)

3D Model

3D scan of an original fossilized skeleton of a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon populator) from the late Pleistocene. It was found in Río Areco in Argentina and is about 40,000 years old.

The skeleton of the saber-toothed cat can be found in the Ice Age corridor at the NHM Vienna.

Specimen: Saber-toothed cat, Smilodon populator (Lund, 1842)

Inventory number: NHMW-Geo 2016/0066/0001

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

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Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.