An eye for a tooth: Thylacosmilus was not a marsupial “saber-tooth predator”

BACKGROUND: Saber-toothed mammals, now all extinct, were cats or “cat-like” forms with enlarged, blade-like upper canines, proposed as specialists in taking large prey. During the last 66 Ma, the saber-tooth ecomorph has evolved convergently at least in five different mammalian lineages across both...

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Autores principales: M. Janis, Christine, Figueirido, Borja, DeSantis, Larisa, Lautenschlager, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
Materias:
Evolutionary Studies
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32617190
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9346

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32617190
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9346

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