Eomakhaira
Eomakhaira | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Sparassodonta |
Family: | †Thylacosmilidae |
Genus: | †Eomakhaira Engelman et al, 2020 |
Species: | †E. molossus |
Binomial name | |
†Eomakhaira molossus Engelman et al, 2020 |
Eomakhaira is an extinct genus of thylacosmilid sparassodont known from the Oligocene Abanico Formation of Chile. It contains a single species, Eomakhaira molossus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Engelman, Russell K.; Flynn, John J.; Wyss, André R.; Croft, Darin A. (July 2020). "Eomakhaira molossus, A New Saber-Toothed Sparassodont (Metatheria: Thylacosmilinae) from the Early Oligocene (?Tinguirirican) Cachapoal Locality, Andean Main Range, Chile". American Museum Novitates (3957): 1–75. doi:10.1206/3957.1. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 220601822.