Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Thylacosmilidae
Synonyms: Achlysictis Ameghino 1891, Hyaenodontops Ameghino 1908, Notosmilus Kraglievich 1960
Full reference: E. S. Riggs. 1933. Preliminary description of a new marsupial sabertooth fom the Pliocene of Argentina. Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 6:61-66
Parent taxon: Thylacosmilidae according to C. Suarez et al. 2023
See also de Muizon 1994, de Muizon 1999, Engelman et al. 2020, Forasiepi and Carlini 2010, Forasiepi et al. 2019, Goin and Pascual 1987, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Riggs 1933
Sister taxa: Anachlysictis, Patagosmilus
Subtaxa: Thylacosmilus atrox
Type: Thylacosmilus atrox
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Argentina (4 collections)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (5)
• Miocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 10 collections including 12 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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