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Sparassocynus Mercerat 1898
Description
Sparassocynus Mercerat, 1898
Type species. Sparassocynus bahiai Mercerat, 1898, Montehermosan (late Miocene/early Pliocene; following Reguero & Candela, 2011) Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Included species. Sparassocynus derivatus Reig & Simpson, 1972, Chapadmalalan (late early Pliocene) and Marplatan (late Pliocene), Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and S. maimarai n. sp.
Notes
Published as part of Abello, María Alejandra, Reyes, Martín De Los, Candela, Adriana Magdalena, Pujos, Francois, Voglino, Damián & Quispe, Bernardino Mamani, 2015, Description of a new species of Sparassocynus (Marsupialia: Didelphoidea: Sparassocynidae) from the late Miocene of Jujuy (Argentina) and taxonomic review of Sparassocynus heterotopicus from the Pliocene of Bolivia, pp. 147-160 in Zootaxa 3937 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/241553
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Didelphidae
- Genus
- Sparassocynus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Didelphimorphia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mercerat
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sparassocynus Mercerat, 1898 sec. Abello, Reyes, Candela, Pujos, Voglino & Quispe, 2015
References
- Mercerat, A. (1898). Sur de nouveau restes fossiles de carnassiers primitifs de Monte Hermoso. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 47, 56 - 60.
- Reguero, M. & Candela, A. M. (2011) Late Cenozoic mammals from the Northwest of Argentina. In: Salfity, J. A & Marquillas, R. A. (Eds.), Cenozoic Geology of the Central Andes of Argentina. Instituto del Cenozoico, Universidad Nacional de Salta. pp. 411 - 426.
- Reig, O. A. & Simpson, G. G. (1972) Sparassocynus (Marsupialia, Didelphidae), a peculiar mammal from the late Cenozoic of Argentina. Journal of Zoology, 167 (4), 511 - 539. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1972. tb 01742. x