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Thylacosmilus atrox Riggs 1933
Authors/Creators
- 1. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CCT-CONICET Mendoza, Av. Ruiz Leal s / n, Parque General San Martín, Mendoza, 5500 (Argentina) and Grupo de Paleontología Neotropical Tradicional y Molecular (PaleoNeo), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (Colombia) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843 - 03092, Balboa-Ancón (Panama) catasuarezg @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
- 2. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CCT-CONICET Mendoza, Av. Ruiz Leal s / n, Parque General San Martín, Mendoza, 5500 (Argentina) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) (Argentina)
- 3. Unidad Ejecutora Lillo-CONICET, Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 251, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, 4000 (Argentina)
- 4. Ashoro Museum of Paleontology, 29 - 1 Konan, Ashoro, Ashoro District, Hokkaido 089 - 3727 (Japan)
- 5. Museum of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB 2 3 EJ (United Kingdom) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843 - 03092, Balboa-Ancón (Panama)
- 6. Museo de Historia Natural La Tatacoa, Centro Poblado La Victoria, Villavieja, Huila Department (Colombia)
- 7. Grupo de Paleontología Neotropical Tradicional y Molecular (PaleoNeo), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (Colombia) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843 - 03092, Balboa-Ancón (Panama) and Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605 (United States)
- 8. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) (Argentina) and División Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s / n, La Plata, Buenos Aires, B 1900 FWA (Argentina)
Description
Thylacosmilus atrox Riggs, 1933
FMNH P14531 (holotype), nearly complete skull (Chiquimil locality, Catamarca Province, Argentina; Corral Quemado Formation, Chapadmalalan Stage/Age, late Pliocene; FMNH P143344 (paratype): left mandibular ramus with dentition (Chiquimil locality, Catamarca Province, Argentina; Andagala Formation, Huayquerian Stage/Age, late Miocene); MLP 65-VII-29-41, partial skull, partial right mandibular ramus with dentition and a fragment of the right upper canine isolated (Salinas Grandes de Hidalgo, La Pampa Province, Argentina; Cerro Azul Formation, Huayquerian Stage/Age, late Miocene).
Additional information: Riggs (1934); Goin & Pascual (1987); Forasiepi et al. (2019).
Comment: The FMNH specimens were revised in photographs provided by A. Forasiepi.
Notes
Published as part of Suarez, Catalina, Forasiepi, Analia M., Babot, María Judith, Shinmura, Tatsuya, Luque, Javier, Vanegas, Rubén D., Cadena, Edwin A. & Goin, Francisco J., 2023, A sabre-tooth predator from the Neotropics: Cranial morphology of Anachlysictis gracilis Goin, 1997 (Metatheria, Thylacosmilidae), based on new specimens from La Venta (Middle Miocene, Colombia), pp. 497-572 in Geodiversitas 45 (18) on page 544, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a18, http://zenodo.org/record/8434228
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- FMNH , MLP
- Material sample ID
- FMNH P143344 , FMNH P14531 , MLP 65-VII-29-41
- Scientific name authorship
- Riggs
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Sparassodonta
- Family
- Thylacosmilidae
- Genus
- Thylacosmilus
- Species
- atrox
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thylacosmilus atrox Riggs, 1933 sec. Suarez, Forasiepi, Babot, Shinmura, Luque, Vanegas, Cadena & Goin, 2023