Pharsophorus Ameghino 1897 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1897. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]. Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18(4–9):406-521

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

See also Ameghino 1897, Goin et al. 2010, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Patterson and Marshall 1978

Sister taxa: Angelocabrerus, Argyrolestes, Australohyaena, Borhyaeninae, Eutemodus, Fredszalaya, Nemolestes, Plesiofelis, Prothylacyninae

Subtaxa: Pharsophorus lacerans Pharsophorus tenax

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Type: Pharsophorus lacerans

Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Deseadan of Argentina (3 collections), Bolivia (3)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1)

Total: 7 collections including 8 occurrences

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