Sparassodonta (redirect from Sparassodont)
showed that sparassodonts died out long before eutherian carnivores arrived in South America (aside from procyonids, which sparassodonts probably did...
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Borhyaenidae (category Sparassodonts)
taxon, Sparassodonta. Like most metatherians, borhyaenids and other sparassodonts are thought to have had a pouch to carry their offspring around. Borhyaenids...
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mammals initially consisted primarily of metatherians (marsupials and sparassodonts), xenarthrans, and a diverse group of native ungulates known as the...
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paucituberculatans and sparassodonts. Large opossums like Didelphis show a pattern of gradually increasing in size over geologic time as sparassodont diversity declined...
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carnivores in the northern continents and Africa. In South America, sparassodonts were dominant, while Australia saw the presence of several marsupial...
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Thylacosmilus (category Sparassodonts)
was not a felid, like the well-known North American Smilodon, but a sparassodont, a group closely related to marsupials, and only superficially resembled...
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phorusrhacids may have presented intense competition to predatory metatherian sparassodonts such as borhyaenids and thylacosmilids, causing the mammalian predators...
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mammalian and avian evolution, with the dominance of phorusrhacids and sparassodonts as predators in contrast to the North American placental carnivores...
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Eomakhaira (category Sparassodonts)
Eomakhaira is an extinct genus of thylacosmilid sparassodont known from the Oligocene Abanico Formation of Chile. It contains a single species, Eomakhaira...
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teeth, a feature which also convergently evolved in the saber-toothed sparassodont Thylacosmilus. The ancestors of nimravids and cats diverged from a common...
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Thylacosmilidae (category Sparassodonts)
Thylacosmilinae, within Borhyaenidae, a group of superficially canid-like sparassodonts, under the assumption that Thylacosmilus was merely a late and specialized...
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Cretaceous–recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Lycopsis longirostris, an extinct sparassodont, a relative of the marsupials A mouse opossum (Marmosa) Scientific classification...
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niches for mammalian carnivores were dominated by these marsupial and sparassodont metatherians, which seem to have competitively excluded South American...
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reduced osseous element. This was once considered a synapomorphy with sparassodonts, though it is now thought that both groups reduced their epipubics independently...
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Proborhyaena (category Sparassodonts)
proborhyaenid sparassodont that lived during the Oligocene of what is now South America. It is considered to be the largest of the sparassodonts. Proborhyaena...
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Pharsophorus (category Sparassodonts)
Pharsophorus is an extinct genus of borhyaenoid sparassodont that inhabited South America during the Middle to Late Oligocene epoch. Originally, Pharsophorus...
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largest of native South American mammal predators, the sabertoothed sparassodont Thylacosmilus. The largest phorusrhacid birds may also have been able...
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Mayulestes (category Sparassodonts)
Tiupampa, Bolivia in the early Paleocene. It shared its habitat with fellow sparassodont Pucadelphys, and a microbiotherid marsupial, Khasia. de Muizon, Christian...
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sectorius A borhyaenid sparassodont Acyon A. tricuspidatus A hathliacynid sparassodont Arctodictis A. munizi A borhyaenid sparassodont Borhyaena B. tuberata...
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Scalabrinitherium. Carnivores included the other phorusrhacid Andalgalornis and sparassodonts, with giant crocodilians like Gryposuchus and Mourasuchus in the freshwater...
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occupied by the native typical South American groups such as metatherian sparassodonts and phorusracids that had largely gone extinct shortly prior to their...
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Hondadelphys (category Sparassodonts)
Hondadelphys is an extinct genus of carnivorous sparassodonts, known from the Middle Miocene of Colombia. The type species, H. fieldsi, was described...
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phorusrhacids shared the dominant predatory niches with metatherian sparassodonts during most of the Cenozoic but declined and ultimately went extinct...
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Marsupials also lived in the region, including the large carnivorous sparassodont Borhyaena. Psilopterus lemoinei is also known from the coastal Monte...
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hyaenodonts and even in two groups of metatherians (the thylacosmilid sparassodonts and the deltatheroideans). Μαχαιροῦς, from Ancient Greek: μάχαιρα, lit...
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running away from predators, such as large phorusrhacid terror birds, sparassodont metatherians, giant short-faced bears (Arctotherium) and saber-toothed...
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Paraborhyaena (category Sparassodonts)
Paraborhyaena is an extinct genus of Sparassodont, belonging to the family Proborhyaenidae. It was one of the large terrestrial predators that roamed South...
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older predatory guilds were dismantling. It co-existed with only a few sparassodont and phorusrhacid taxa like Thylacosmilus and Llallawavis, and it, as...
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"Fragmentary skull." A multituberculate. "Gurlin Tsav skull" Indeterminate Middle or Partial skull A mysterious metatherian, possibly a sparassodont....
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Borhyaenidae indet. Currently undescribed Cladosictis C. sp. A hathliacynid sparassodont Hathliacynidae indet. Currently undescribed Palaeothentes P. sp. A palaeothentid...
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