Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Proborhyaenidae
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: Proborhyaenidae according to R. K. Engelman et al. 2020
See also Ameghino 1897, de Muizon 1999, Marshall 1978, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Patterson and Marshall 1978
Sister taxa: Arminiheringia, Callistoe, Paraborhyaena, Thylacosmilinae
Subtaxa: Proborhyaena gigantea
Type: Proborhyaena gigantea
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Deseadan of Argentina (3 collections), Bolivia (1), Uruguay (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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