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    Sparassodonta (from Greek σπαράσσειν [sparassein], to tear, rend; and ὀδούς, gen. ὀδόντος [odous, odontos], tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous...
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    predatory mammals in the order Sparassodonta. Borhyaenids are not true marsupials, but members of a sister taxon, Sparassodonta. Like most metatherians, borhyaenids...
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    Machairodontinae. The cladogram below shows the position of Thylacosmilus within Sparassodonta, according to Suarez and colleagues, 2015. Body mass for sparassodonts...
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    two extinct lineages of metatherian mammals, the thylacosmilids of Sparassodonta, and deltatheroideans, which are more closely related to marsupials...
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    including both the ancestors of extant marsupials as well as the extinct Sparassodonta, which were major predators in South American ecosystems during most...
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    Proborhyaenidae is an extinct family of metatherian mammals of the order Sparassodonta, which lived in South America from the Eocene (Mustersan) until the...
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    extinct clade Metatheria and all members of the extinct superorder Sparassodonta. The order contains four families: one with just a single living species...
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    Great American Biotic Interchange, these animals belonged to the order Sparassodonta, which occupied the ecological niche of many eutherian mammals of the...
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    Forasiepi, Analia M. (2021-10-31). "Cladosictis patagonica (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from the Collón Cura Formation (Middle Miocene), Río Negro, Argentina"...
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    Edad-mamífero Colhuehuapense). Parte I: Introducción, Didelphimorphia y Sparassodonta". Ameghiniana. 44 (1): 29–71. Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder...
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