Megantereon was a sabertoothed feline, that lived in the middle Pleistocene and was the ancestor of Smilodon. Megantereon was actually a pretty smol kitty compared to Smilodon, but I'm sure it could still rip your face off if it had a bad day.



If we compare the skulls of this animal and a modern lion, we can clearly see the eye sockets in the Megantereon skull are a little bit lower.
Lion
 

Megantereon
 

Also, do you see that chin? It has the potential to defeat Apollyon.
Alrighty, joking aside. Time for some reconstruction. As a reference how the flesh may wrap around the head I used the X-Ray of a dead mountain lion. I know a mountain lion is not a african lion or a smilodon, but I haven't found anything else I could possibly use as a trustful reference

 


This is what I've come up with (please note, I'm not a paleoartist, and I'm pretty sure there are still inaccuracies since I do not have the required amount of knowledge to know how sabertooth anatomy works):

 
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Addition 2019-10-20:
Thanks to Raina (Primal) (#93963)s reply on this thread, I could make a more anatomically correct reconstruction:
 
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And now... the body.
This is the only picture I've found so far where a Megantereon skeleton is almost completly sideways positioned. (I know there are drawings of this species' skeleton out there, but I prefer to use photos of skeletons)

 

For this I've actually sticked to the description Wikipedia gave me: "Megantereon was built like a large modern jaguar, but somewhat heavier. It had stocky forelimbs with the lower half of these forelimbs lion-sized. It had large neck muscles designed to deliver a powerful shearing bite."

Alright, get a Jaguar, slap on some lion legs and a Megantereon skull, make it thicc, and done I guess.

Aaaand voila, my version of a Megantereon (this one still has the older, inaccurate head):




As said before, it's probably not really accurate, but I would like to see a version of Megantereon ingame.
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