Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-04 | Page 4 | Saber-Tooth Cat Found in Idaho Fossils

Tooth Saber-Tooth Cat Found in Idaho Fossils Fossils' I A tooth saber cat species much smaller great tiger sized animals ani ant mals mals' made famous by the California tar-pit tar finds is s represented by a jaw fragment from Idaho described in the current Journal of ot by Dr C. C Lewis Gazin of the U. U S. S National museum Another new species of extinct ex cx- cat found in the same region resembles the modern puma or mountain moun moun- tam tain lion These fossils were found among a amass amass mass of bones of ot extinct species sp o of horses collected by paleontologists o of the museum The stratum in which the find was made is of Pliocene age perhaps two or three million years old and dating before the coming o of the great glaciers that once covered most of this continent