- 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...
- Saber-toothed predator,
several distantly related lineages of
synapsids Thylacosmilus, a
genus of sabre-toothed
metatherian predators from the
Miocene period...
- cats (Machairodontinae) and the
South American marsupial sabre-tooth (
Thylacosmilus); the
Tasmanian wolf and the
European wolf;
likewise marsupial and placental...
-
closely related to
Thylacosmilus than Anachlysictis,
though in
other respects this
species is less
specialized than
Thylacosmilus. The only
known species...
- Examples:
Smilodon ("knife tooth");
Smilosuchus ("knife crocodile");
Thylacosmilus ("pouched knife");
Xenosmilus ("strange knife") spino-, -spino-, -spinax...
- Bemalambda, Archaeolambda, Entelodon, Hyaenodon, Paraceratherium,
Thylacosmilus, Doedicurus, Promacrauchenia, Alcidedorbignya, Mayulestes, Asiocoryphodon...
-
feature which also
convergently evolved in the saber-toothed spar****odont
Thylacosmilus. The
ancestors of
nimravids and cats
diverged from a
common ancestor...
