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The serrated edges of the canine combined with the position of the incisors demonstrate that the specimen from McFaddin Beach represents a species of <jats:italic>Homotherium<\/jats:italic>. That specimen is the latest in a larger sample of <jats:italic>Homotherium<\/jats:italic> in Texas that spans most of the Pliocene\u2013Pleistocene. This is the first occurrence of <jats:italic>Homotherium<\/jats:italic> from the continental shelf of the Gulf Coast. That landscape may have formed a broad subtropical Gulf Coast corridor that facilitated the dispersal of Neotropical taxa along the coast between Texas and Florida. The associated fauna from McFaddin Beach contains Neotropical mammals common to southern Texas and Florida and indicates that <jats:italic>Homotherium<\/jats:italic> was a member of the fauna inhabiting the Gulf Coast corridor during the Late Pleistocene.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/ar.25461","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,24]],"date-time":"2024-04-24T01:00:06Z","timestamp":1713920406000},"page":"2913-2923","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The scimitar\u2010cat <i>Homotherium<\/i> from the submerged continental shelf of the Gulf Coast of Texas"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"308","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1807-3211","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John A.","family":"Moretti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences The University of Texas at Austin  Austin Texas USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Deanna","family":"Flores","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth Sciences University of Oregon  Eugene Oregon USA"},{"name":"Department of Biological Sciences Sam Houston State University  Huntsville Texas USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher J.","family":"Bell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences The University of Texas at Austin  Austin Texas USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Will","family":"Godwin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sam Houston State Natural History Collections Sam Houston State University  Huntsville Texas USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5307-5573","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adam","family":"Hartstone\u2010Rose","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biological Sciences North Carolina State University  Raleigh North Carolina USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5021-5603","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrick J.","family":"Lewis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biological Sciences Sam Houston State University  Huntsville Texas USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Red light local fauna (Blancan) of the love formation, southeastern Hudspeth County, Texas","volume":"20","author":"Akersten W. 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