Dente ferro (saber toothed catin)

Occidendum dente (common name, Saber-toothed Catin) is a species of Killa that is a member of the genus Occidendum. It's not the largest predator on the planet. Standing around 7tf tall and 8ft long, Occidendum dente is the last remaining member of the clade Catinaforms. This clade would give rise to the order Catina,  Occidendum dente was originally thought to be a Catina and was given the name Dente ferro, but upon closer inspection both externally and internally with a DNA test, it shows that they are not catins at all, in fact, they are members of the family Killa and specifically a part of the genus Occidendum, so was renamed Occidendum dente. Catinaform used to be one of the top dominant predators from around 20 million years ago, and their rain ended about 4 million years ago with Occidendum dente being one of the last species around today. Their rain ended because of true Catina evolving about 8 million years ago, and after 4 million years of evolution, True Catins started to compete for those ecological niches, and they just filled them out better, so they won, driving most of the Catinaforms to Extinction, until there was only one species left and that species later evolved into Occidendum dente. The Saber-toothed Catin is a hypercarnivore gaining around 70% of its diet from meat. The average lifespan for them is 42 years, but the oldest one on record is 52.

anatomy

Saber-toothed Catin at first glance looks just like any other Catin with six legs one clawed foot, and a paired of eyestalks, but at a closer look they do look different from True Catins, the feature that got them their names is their giant saber teeth, which stop growing at the age of 25, after reaching a length of 12inchs, a second feature is their middle pair of legs, which in other species face backward, but the middle legs of saber-toothed Catins face forward. Why their legs are like this, well it's not really known, one belief is that it helps pull them forward when running. Their organs are what you expect, lungs, heart, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, reproductive organs, and there is a layout, you'd properly expect.

habitat

Occidendum dentes live in what was once the continent of Quintusterram, but nowadays all the continents have come together into Omnisterra. They live in areas that are covered in warm red jungles, and dense trees, and foliage with grassland located, around areas of the continent. They can be found in all the red parts of Omnisterra, but are most common on the subcontinent Ericka, in the country of Erica they are the country's national animal, this creature is even on their flag.

diet

Saber-toothed Catins are apex predators, which prey on giant carnivores, which prey on giant herbivores, they accomplish this by having 6 members of their species attacking from all angles at once, this doesn't always work and sometimes one or two of these six may die. They don't always just attack other large carnivores sometimes they attack large herbivores that those large carnivores like to feed on, they use the same strategy, and just like with the large carnivores sometimes a couple of them might die. They don't just eat animals larger than themselves, most of the time they go for animals around their size or smaller, they accomplice this by simply chasing them down, and attacking them, not like a cheetah, but more like a lion or a tiger. Other carnivorous species and smaller saber tooth they can't chew and will just bit of big chunks of meats and swole whole, one thing they'll do is when eating the intestines they'll shake out the feces so they don't get sick, in the jungles, they ambush their prey, in the grasslands, they run down their prey. When killing prey they use their massive saber teeth as either a direct bite to the skull or crushing the neck.

breeding

The saber-toothed breeding month is around autumn, where males will fight each other for the right to mate with females, in some rare occasions, opponents will kill one another, after the winning male mates with a female, then the female wanders the jungles, looking to find the most shaded area they can find in the jungles, where the mother will lay their eggs and then buries them, and the mother watches over them for months, defending them from any threats, and will either dig up or berry so they don't get too cold or too hot, when the babies hatch, unlike other Occidendum they watch and take care of their young until maturity, where they split from the mother, and go living their own lives. Their mother will teach them how to hunt, once they are all grown up they are on their own.

adaptations

Saber-tooth have a mostly red body, which helps blend them in with the red foliage of the jungles, the yellow strip breaks up their bodies and is used as a sign of maturity. Their most notable adaptation is of course they're sabertooth, which is used as an effective killing tool but can be easily broken just like a smilodon's tooth on Earth.

taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Superclass: Cathibian

Class: Catus

Order: Catuses

Suborder: Huma

Family: Killa

Genus: Occidendum

Clade: Catinaforms

Species: Dente

\*\*Subspecies under Dente\*\*

Occidendum dente sonantis

Occidendum dente campus

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