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...

intensively. One particularly notable find was the saber-toothed marsupial Thylacosmilus, which he found in Late Miocene-age rocks of Argentina in 1927 and named...

Examples: Smilodon ("knife tooth"); Smilosuchus ("knife crocodile"); Thylacosmilus ("pouched knife"); Xenosmilus ("strange knife") spino-, -spino-, -spinax...

metatherian predators such as the borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus. South American niches for mammalian carnivores were dominated by these...

native South American mammal predators, the sabertoothed sparassodont Thylacosmilus. The largest phorusrhacid birds may also have been able to prey on juveniles...

closely related to Thylacosmilus than Anachlysictis, though in other respects this species is less specialized than Thylacosmilus. The only known species...

the Great American Interchange which caused many marsupials such as Thylacosmilus to go extinct. South America is the continent with the largest number...

of these also existed, such as the borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus; these were sparassodont metatherians, which are no longer considered...

up to a 1 m (3 ft 3 in). The largest non-marsupial metatherian was Thylacosmilus, weigh 80 to 120 kilograms (180 to 260 lb), one estimate suggesting...

than its better-known relative Thylacosmilus, weighing around 18 kilograms (40 lb). The specialized features of Thylacosmilus such as the flanges on the lower...

Bemalambda Archaeolambda Entelodon Embolotherium Hyaenodon Paraceratherium Thylacosmilus Doedicurus Promacrauchenia Alcidedorbignya Mayulestes Asiocoryphodon...

feature which also convergently evolved in the saber-toothed sparassodont Thylacosmilus. The ancestors of nimravids and cats diverged from a common ancestor...

(Thylacoleo carnifex) and the South American saber-toothed marsupial (Thylacosmilus) both ranging from 1.5 to 1.8 m (4.9 to 5.9 ft) long and weighing between...

Madre de Dios. A time anomaly has opened and let a pack of prehistoric Thylacosmilus into the modern world. The region is the subject of a memoir by conservationist...

the probable predatory mode of Thylacosmilus and Thylacoleo is published by Janis (2024), who argues that Thylacosmilus was unlikely to be able to kill...

and one of the largest metatherian carnivores known (comparable to Thylacosmilus and Borhyaena species, but smaller than Proborhyaena gigantea). Individuals...

skeleton, pelvis with hind limb Smilodon saber-toothed cat fossil skeleton Thylacosmilus saber-toothed metatherian fossil skull Ursus spelaeus cave bear fossil...

Borhyaena Eutemnodus? Proborhyaenidae Arminiheringia Callistoe Paraborhyaena Proborhyaena Thylacosmilidae Anachlysictis Eomakhaira Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus...

species Sahelanthropus tchadensis, shows several human traits. Earliest Thylacosmilus, sabre-toothed marsupial of South America. Australopithecines diversify...

sandstones and tuffs of the formation contain many mammals, such as Thylacosmilus and Macrauchenia, reptiles, amphibians and fossils of terror birds as...

Borhyaena Eutemnodus? Proborhyaenidae Arminiheringia Callistoe Paraborhyaena Proborhyaena Thylacosmilidae Anachlysictis Eomakhaira Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus...

Lagostomus Macroeuphractus Proeuphractus Pronothrotherium Pseudotypotherium Thylacosmilus Xotodon Macraucheniidae Primates Rodents Reptiles Birds Terror birds...

Borhyaena Eutemnodus? Proborhyaenidae Arminiheringia Callistoe Paraborhyaena Proborhyaena Thylacosmilidae Anachlysictis Eomakhaira Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus...

Borhyaena Eutemnodus? Proborhyaenidae Arminiheringia Callistoe Paraborhyaena Proborhyaena Thylacosmilidae Anachlysictis Eomakhaira Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus...

(unidentified) Theropithecus brumpti Thylacinus cynocephalus Thylacoleo carnifex Thylacosmilus Toxodon platensis Tragoportax Tylocephalonyx Uintatherium Ursus spelaeus...