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    A weight in this range would make Thylacosmilus one of the largest known carnivorous metatherians. Thylacosmilus had large, saber-like canines. The roots...
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    more widespread adaptation. The third appearance of long canines is Thylacosmilus, which is the most distinctive of the saber-tooth mammals and is also...
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    Thylacosmilidae was originally erected by Riggs in 1933, to accommodate Thylacosmilus, found in the Pliocene Brochero Formation of Argentina. Later, the family...
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    Patagosmilus goini (early middle Miocene, Colloncuran SALMA) Genus Thylacosmilus Thylacosmilus atrox (latest Miocene to late Pliocene, Huayquerian-Chapadmalalan...
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  • closely related to Thylacosmilus than Anachlysictis, though in other respects this species is less specialized than Thylacosmilus. The only known species...
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    Colombia, and Uruguay). The most notable thylacosmiliforms, such as Thylacosmilus, comprise the more exclusive family Thylacosmilidae and have prominent...
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    metatherian predators such as the borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus. South American niches for mammalian carnivores were dominated by these...
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  • Examples: Smilodon ("knife tooth"); Smilosuchus ("knife crocodile"); Thylacosmilus ("pouched knife"); Xenosmilus ("strange knife") spino-, -spino-, -spinax...
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  • the Great American Interchange which caused many marsupials such as Thylacosmilus to go extinct. South America is the continent with the largest number...
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    than its better-known relative Thylacosmilus, weighing around 18 kilograms (40 lb). The specialized features of Thylacosmilus such as the flanges on the lower...
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    sandstones and tuffs of the formation contain many mammals, such as Thylacosmilus and Huayqueriana, reptiles, amphibians and fossils of terror birds as...
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    feature which also convergently evolved in the saber-toothed sparassodont Thylacosmilus. A 2021 study has shown that a sizeable number of species developed...
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    Madre de Dios. A time anomaly has opened and let a pack of prehistoric Thylacosmilus into the modern world. The region is the subject of a memoir by conservationist...
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  • cats (Machairodontinae) and the South American marsupial sabre-tooth (Thylacosmilus); the Tasmanian wolf and the European wolf; likewise marsupial and placental...
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    intensively. One particularly notable find was the saber-toothed marsupial Thylacosmilus, which he found in Late Miocene-age rocks of Argentina in 1927 and named...
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  • Saber-toothed predator, several distantly related lineages of synapsids Thylacosmilus, a genus of sabre-toothed metatherian predators from the Miocene period...
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    and one of the largest metatherian carnivores known (comparable to Thylacosmilus and Borhyaena species, but smaller than Proborhyaena gigantea). Individuals...
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  • Bemalambda, Archaeolambda, Entelodon, Hyaenodon, Paraceratherium, Thylacosmilus, Doedicurus, Promacrauchenia, Alcidedorbignya, Mayulestes, Asiocoryphodon...
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    of these also existed, such as the borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus; these were sparassodont metatherians, which are no longer considered...
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    dimidiata is thought to be a miniature analog to the marsupial sabertooths Thylacosmilus. Like extinct sabertooth predators, it has one of the largest canines...
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    up to a 1 m (3 ft 3 in). The largest non-marsupial metatherian was Thylacosmilus atrox, weighing 80 to 120 kilograms (180 to 260 lb), one estimate suggesting...
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    to protect the sabers (this is also seen in the unrelated marsupial Thylacosmilus and felid Megantereon). There is fossil evidence of conflict between...
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  • Thylacosmilidae Anachlysictis Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus...
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    although not as developed as those of the later Thylacosmilus. The canines, in contrast to those of Thylacosmilus which had an "almond-shaped" section and a...
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  • (Thylacoleo carnifex) and the South American saber-toothed marsupial (Thylacosmilus) both ranging from 1.5 to 1.8 m (4.9 to 5.9 ft) long and weighing between...
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  • Thylacosmilus...
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    Megatherium Paramylodon Shasta ground sloth Diprotodon Procoptodon Thylacoleo Thylacosmilus Giant beavers Neochoerus Amphechinus Archaeolambda Palaeolagus Tingamarra...
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  • individually in the following taxa: Clade Metatheria Order †Sparassodonta †Thylacosmilus Order Diprotodontia †Thylacoleo Clade Eutheria Order Carnivora Barbourofelis...
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    Thylacosmilidae Anachlysictis Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus...
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    Thylacosmilidae Anachlysictis Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus...
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