Biology:Pharsophorus
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| Pharsophorus lacerans | |
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| Superfamily: | †Borhyaenoidea
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| Genus: | †Pharsophorus Ameghino 1897
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Pharsophorus is an extinct genus of borhyaenoid sparassodont that inhabited South America during the Middle to Late Oligocene epoch.[1]
Taxonomy
Originally, Pharsophorus was thought to be a borhyaenid, and was even considered to be the ancestor of Borhyaena, Acrocyon, and Arctodictis, but later phylogenetic analyses have shown that it is not a member of the Borhyaenidae and is only more distantly related to these forms.[2][3] Remains of Pharsophorus are known from the Sarmiento Formation of the provinces of Mendoza, Santa Cruz, and Chubut in Argentina , as well as the Salla Formation at the fossil site of Salla in western Bolivia.[4][5] The species "Pharsophorus" antiquus, formerly assigned to this genus, was eventually made the type species of a separate genus Australohyaena.[6]
References
- ↑ Pharsophorus at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Marshall, Larry G. (1978). Evolution of the Borhyaenidae, extinct South American predaceous marsupials. 117. University of California Press. pp. 1–89. ISBN 9780520095717. https://books.google.com/books?id=VCMRwAr5Iq4C&pg=PA68.
- ↑ Forasiepi, Analía M. (2009). "Osteology of Arctodictis sinclairi (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta) and phylogeny of Cenozoic metatherian carnivores from South America". Monografías del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 6: 1–174. https://www.academia.edu/4908872.
- ↑ Patterson, Bryan; Larry G. Marshall (1978). "The Deseadan, Early Oligocene, Marsupialia South America". Fieldiana: Geology 41 (2): 37–100.
- ↑ Cerdeño, Bryan (2012). "Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza), un importante centro paleobiogeográfico en el Oligoceno tardío de América del Sur". Estudios Geológicos 67 (2): 375–385. doi:10.3989/egeol.40519.194. http://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/download/849/881.
- ↑ Analía M. Forasiepi, M. Judith Babot and Natalia Zimicz (2014). "Australohyaena antiqua (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta), a large predator from the Late Oligocene of Patagonia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 (6): 503–525. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.926403.
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