Stylocynus
| Stylocynus Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Sparassodonta |
| Genus: | †Stylocynus Mercerat, 1917 |
| Type species | |
| †Stylocynus paranensis | |
Stylocynus is an extinct genus of metatherian, within the order Sparassodonta. Sparassodonts were an extinct order of metatherian mammals that lived from the Early Paleocene to the Early Pleistocene.[1][2][3] Unlike most sparassodonts, which found to have been hypercarnivorous, Stylocynus was either had an omnivorous or a mesocarnivorous diet.[4][5]
Description
[edit]Stylocynus was a thought to have been a large sparassodont weighing 28–35 kg (62–77 lb).[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ del Campo, Eric N.; Agnolín, Federico L.; Chimento, Nicolás R.; Boh, Daniel; Magnussen, Mariano; De Cianni, Francisco (2026-09-22). "A new sabre-toothed thylacosmilid (Thylacosmilidae, Metatheria) from the Pliocene–Pleistocene of Southern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology: 1–32. doi:10.1080/03115518.2026.2727509. ISSN 0311-5518.
- ↑ Suárez, C.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Goin, F. J.; Jaramillo, C. (2015). "Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 e1029581. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1029581. hdl:11336/53653. S2CID 86264178.
- ↑ Prevosti, Francisco J.; Suarez, Catalina; Forasiepi, Analia M.; Tarquini, Sergio D.; Chemisquy, M. Amelia (31 December 2024). "Another Twist Decoding the Patterns of Evolution of the South American Extinct Mammalian Predators (Sparassodonta, Metatheria)". Ameghiniana. 61 (6). doi:10.5710/AMGH.12.12.2024.3618. hdl:11336/263335. ISSN 0002-7014. Retrieved 14 May 2026 – via BioOne Digital Library.
- 1 2 Engelman, Russell K.; Croft, Darin Andrew (2019). "Strangers in a strange land: Ecological dissimilarity to metatherian carnivores may partly explain early colonization of South America by Cyonasua-group procyonids". Paleobiology. 45 (4): 598–611. Bibcode:2019Pbio...45..598E. doi:10.1017/pab.2019.29.
- ↑ Prevosti, Francisco J.; Forasiepi, Analía; Zimicz, Natalia (5 November 2013). "The Evolution of the Cenozoic Terrestrial Mammalian Predator Guild in South America: Competition or Replacement?". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 20 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1007/s10914-011-9175-9. hdl:11336/2663. S2CID 15751319.