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Prothylacyninae
Taxonomy
Prothylacynidae was named by Ameghino (1894) [1894a]. Its type is Prothylacynus.
It was reranked as the subfamily Prothylacyninae by Marshall (1977), Marshall (1978), Marshall (1979), de Muizon (1999) and Goin et al. (2007).
It was assigned to Sparassodonta by Ameghino (1894); and to Borhyaenidae by Marshall (1977), Marshall (1978), Marshall (1979), de Muizon (1999) and Goin et al. (2007).
It was reranked as the subfamily Prothylacyninae by Marshall (1977), Marshall (1978), Marshall (1979), de Muizon (1999) and Goin et al. (2007).
It was assigned to Sparassodonta by Ameghino (1894); and to Borhyaenidae by Marshall (1977), Marshall (1978), Marshall (1979), de Muizon (1999) and Goin et al. (2007).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. †Prothylacyninae Ameghino 1894
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G. †Prothylacynus Ameghino 1891
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†Prothylacynus patagonicus Ameghino 1891
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Invalid names: Agustylus carnifex Mercerat 1891 [synonym], Borhyaena excavata Ameghino 1894 [synonym], Napodonictis thylacynoides Ameghino 1894 [synonym], Prothylacynus brachyrhynchus Ameghino 1894 [synonym]
Invalid names: Napodonictis Ameghino 1894 [synonym], Prothylacocyon Winge 1923 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: s = species, subo = suborder, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Clemens 1979, Vizcaíno et al. 2010, Hendy et al. 2009, Goin 1997, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Colhuehuapian to the top of the Chasicoan or 21.00000 to 9.00000 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Colhuehuapian | Argentina (Chubut) | Pseudothylacynus rectus (141368) | |
| Santacrucian | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | Prothylacynus brachyrhynchus, Napodonictis thylacynoides, Prothylacynus patagonicus (142533) Prothylacynus patagonicus (27313 87314 176569 176575 176587 176602 206237) Prothylacynus patagonicus, Borhyaena excavata (176570) | |
| Friasian | Chile (Aisén) | Prothylacynus patagonicus (139845) | |
| Laventan | Colombia (Huila) | Dukecynus magnus (187960) | |
| Chasicoan | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Pseudolycopsis cabrerai (79180) |