Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:5-70

Parent taxon: Borhyaenidae according to G. G. Simpson 1948

See also Ameghino 1902 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Angelocabrerus, Australohyaena, Borhyaeninae, Eutemodus, Fredszalaya, Nemolestes, Pharsophorus, Prothylacyninae

Subtaxa: Argyrolestes peralestinus

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Type: Argyrolestes peralestinus

Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution: found only at Casamayoran of Patagonia (Eocene of Argentina)

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