Thylacosmilus
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thylacosmilus-188-7418703
title:
Thylacosmilus
text:
Thylacosmilus is an extinct genus of saber-toothed metatherian mammals that inhabited South America from the Late Miocene to Pliocene epochs. Though Thylacosmilus looks similar to the "saber-toothed cats", it was not a felid, like the well-known North American Smilodon, but a sparassodont, a group closely related to marsupials, and only superficially resembled other saber-toothed mammals due to convergent evolution. A 2005 study found that the bite forces of Thylacosmilus and Smilodon were low,
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of mammals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacosmilus
date created:
2005-09-25T02:05:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T19:03:20Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q131163","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131163"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/MEF_Thylacosmilus.jpg","width":2560,"height":1428}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16