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⇱ Sparassodonta


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Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)54053https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=54053
Rankorder (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Sparassodonta
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
-Theriamorpha
-Theriiformes
-TrechnotheriaMcKenna 1975
-CladotheriaMcKenna 1975
-Boreosphenida
subclassTheriaParker and Haswell 1897
subclassMetatheria
suborderSparassodonta
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Sparassodontasuborderbelongs to Sarcoborastated without evidenceAmeghino, 1894
Sparassodontasuborderbelongs to Sarcoborastated with evidenceAmeghino, 1897
Sparassodontasubordersubjective synonym of Borhyaenoideastated with evidenceMarshall, 1978
Sparassodontaorderbelongs to Marsupialiastated without evidenceGoin et al., 2007
Sparassodontaorderbelongs to Metatheriastated with evidenceForasiepi, 2009
Sparassodontaorderbelongs to Marsupialiastated without evidenceGoin et al., 2010
Sparassodontaorderbelongs to Ameridelphiastated without evidenceOliveira and Goin, 2011
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)118
First Recorded Appearance66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene
Last Recorded Appearance4.00 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic
Environmentterrestrial (based on Sparassodonta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Sparassodonta)
Reproductionviviparous (based on Theria)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)F. Ameghino. 1894. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13:259-452

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
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Borhyaenoidea
superfamily
listed (PBDB)13061.7 Ma
Paleocene
9.00 Ma
Miocene
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Hondadelphidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1123.0 Ma
Miocene
13.8 Ma
Miocene
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Thylacosmilidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1421.0 Ma
Miocene
4.00 Ma
Pliocene
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Hathlyacininae
subfamily
listed (PBDB)13959.0 Ma
Paleocene
6.80 Ma
Miocene
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Australogale
genus
listed (PBDB)113.8 Ma
Miocene
13.8 Ma
Miocene
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Stylocynus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
211.6 Ma
Miocene
9.00 Ma
Miocene

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1894Sparassodonta Ameghino p. 108
1897Sparassodonta Ameghino p. 501
2007Sparassodonta Goin et al.
2009Sparassodonta Forasiepi pp. 105-106
2010Sparassodonta Goin et al.
2011Sparassodonta Oliveira and Goin

References

Ameghino F. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie, Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13, 259-452
Ameghino F. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)], Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18 4–9, 406-521
Goin F., Abello A., et al (2007) Los Metatheria sudamericanos de comienzos del Neógeno (Mioceno Temprano, Edad-mamí­fero Colhuehuapense). Parte I: Introducción, Didelphimorphia y Sparassodonta, Ameghiniana 44 1, 29-71
Forasiepi A. 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
Goin F. J., Abello M. A., et al (2010) Middle Tertiary marsupials from central Patagonia (early Oligocene of Gran Barranca): understanding South America's Grande Coupure, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia, 69-105
Oliveira E. V., Goin F. J. (2011) A reassessment of bunodont metatherians from the Paleogene of Itaborai (Brazil): Systematics and the age of the Itaborian SALMA, Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 14 2, 105-136
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