- Spar****odonta.
Borhyaenids are not true marsupials, but
members of a
sister taxon, Spar****odonta. Like most metatherians,
borhyaenids and
other spar****odonts...
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Borhyaenoidea refers to a
restricted subgroup of spar****odonts
comprising borhyaenids and
their close relatives.
Almost all spar****odonts have an exceptionally...
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severing a
major artery. Like
these true marsupials, the
closely related borhyaenids of
South America had
three carn****ial
teeth involving the
first three...
- elephant-like
pyrotheres and the dog-like
marsupial relatives called borhyaenids and the
monotremes and
marsupials of Australia.
Mammal evolution in the...
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presented intense competition to
predatory metatherian spar****odonts such as
borhyaenids and thylacosmilids,
causing the
mammalian predators to
choose forested...
- (Paucituberculata)
alongside non-marsupial
metatherian predators such as the
borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus.
South American niches for mammalian...
- were
recognized as
representing a new type of marsupial,
related to the
borhyaenids, and were
reported to the
Paleontological Society of
America in 1928...
- flesh-eating
kangaroo (possibly Ekaltadeta)
Cocopalia saber-toothed
marsupial borhyaenids marsupial lion
giant kangaroo (possibly Procoptodon)
giant wombat hippopotamus...
- monte).
Larger predatory relatives of
these also existed, such as the
borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus;
these were spar****odont metatherians...
- Sebecosuchians,
terror birds, and
carnivorous metatheres, like the
borhyaenids remained the
dominant predators.
Africa was also
relatively isolated...
