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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