Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Borhyaenidae
Synonym: Plesiofelis Roth 1903
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, Patterson and Marshall 1978 and Roth 1904
Sister taxa: Angelocabrerus, Argyrolestes, Australohyaena, Borhyaeninae, Eutemodus, Fredszalaya, Nemolestes, Prothylacyninae
Subtaxa: Pharsophorus lacerans Pharsophorus tenax Plesiofelis schlosseri
Type: Pharsophorus lacerans
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Deseadan of Argentina (3 collections), Bolivia (3)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (2)
Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences
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