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Prothylacinus

Prothylacinus
Temporal range: Early Miocene
(Santacrucian-Friasian)
~
Life restoration of P. patagonicus and Interatherium robustum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sparassodonta
Family: Prothylacinidae
Genus: Prothylacinus
Ameghino, 1891
Type species
Prothylacinus patagonicus
Ameghino, 1891
Synonyms
  • Napodonictis Ameghino, 1894
  • Prothylacocyon Winge, 1923

Prothylacinus is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Early Miocene.[1]

  1. ^ Argot, C. (2003). "Functional adaptations of the postcranial skeleton of two Miocene borhyaenoids (Mammalia, Metatheria), Borhyaena and Prothylacinus, from South America". Palaeontology. 46 (6): 1213–1267. Bibcode:2003Palgy..46.1213A. doi:10.1046/j.0031-0239.2003.00339.x.

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