
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Churcher, C. S. 
T1  - Dental functional morphology in the marsupial sabre-tooth Thylacosmilus atrox (Thylacosmilidae) compared to that of the felid sabre-tooths.
JF  - Australian Mammalogy
JO  - Aust. Mammalogy
Y1  - 1985
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SP  - 201
EP  - 220
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AM85020 
N2  - The South American Middle to Late Pliocene fauna of Argentina included the borhyaenid marsupials Thylacosmilus atrox and Notosmilus pattersoni, the latter known only from a single Late Pliocene occurrence. Thylacosmilus atrox has been interpreted as a marsupial with a carnivorous specialisation convergent on the fissipede and machairodont sabre-tooths of Eurasia, Africa and North America. Thylacosmilus atrox superficially resembles placental sabre-tooths in general conformation but also shows remarkable divergences, some of which are attributable to its marsupial ancestry. 
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