- A
weight in this
range would make
Thylacosmilus one of the
largest known carnivorous metatherians.
Thylacosmilus had large, saber-like canines. The roots...
- more
widespread adaptation. The
third appearance of long
canines is
Thylacosmilus,
which is the most
distinctive of the saber-tooth
mammals and is also...
-
Thylacosmilidae was
originally erected by
Riggs in 1933, to
accommodate Thylacosmilus,
found in the
Pliocene Brochero Formation of Argentina. Later, the family...
-
Patagosmilus goini (early
middle Miocene,
Colloncuran SALMA)
Genus Thylacosmilus Thylacosmilus atrox (latest
Miocene to late Pliocene, Huayquerian-Chapadmalalan...
- the
Great American Interchange which caused many
marsupials such as
Thylacosmilus to go extinct.
South America is the
continent with the
largest number...
-
closely related to
Thylacosmilus than Anachlysictis,
though in
other respects this
species is less
specialized than
Thylacosmilus. The only
known species...
-
metatherian predators such as the
borhyaenids and the saber-toothed
Thylacosmilus.
South American niches for
mammalian carnivores were
dominated by these...
- Saber-toothed predator,
several distantly related lineages of
synapsids Thylacosmilus, a
genus of sabre-toothed
metatherian predators from the
Miocene period...
- Colombia, and Uruguay). The most
notable thylacosmiliforms, such as
Thylacosmilus,
comprise the more
exclusive family Thylacosmilidae and have prominent...
- Examples:
Smilodon ("knife tooth");
Smilosuchus ("knife crocodile");
Thylacosmilus ("pouched knife");
Xenosmilus ("strange knife") spino-, -spino-, -spinax...
