Mammalia - Sparassodonta - Proborhyaenidae
Synonym: Achlysictis Ameghino 1891
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: Thylacosmilinae according to R. K. Engelman et al. 2020
See also de Muizon 1994, de Muizon 1999, Forasiepi and Carlini 2010, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Riggs 1933
Sister taxa: Eomakhaira, Patagosmilus
Subtaxa: Thylacosmilus atrox
Type: Thylacosmilus atrox
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Argentina (2 collections)
• Montehermosan of Argentina (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (6)
Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences
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