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Dimartinia
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| Dimartinia Temporal range: Late Miocene (Chasicoan),
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Sparassodonta |
| Clade: | †Thylacosmiliformes |
| Genus: | †Dimartinia Suarez et al., 2025 |
| Species: | †D. pristina
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| †Dimartinia pristina Suarez et al., 2025
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Dimartinia (after Vicente Di Martino) is an extinct genus of carnivorous metatherian mammals from the Late Miocene Cerro Azul Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, D. pristina, known from a left mandible and teeth. Dimartinia is a primitive member of the Thylacosmiliformes, a group also containing the saber toothed thylacosmilids.
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