Fossil of Carnivorous ‘Swamp Monster’ Found in Brazil
Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized lower right canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont in the Taubaté Basin of Brazil.
The new fossil dates back to the Deseadan age of the Oligocene epoch, between 29 and 21 million years ago.
The specimen is assigned to a yet-to-be-named member of the Proborhyaenidae, an extinct family of South American metatherian mammals within the order Sparassodonta.
Sparassodonta is an extinct clade of metatherians endemic to South America that presented the main terrestrial mammalian predators on this continent during Cenozoic times
These creatures occupied the role of carnivorous predators on the continent during the Cenozoic era.
Author summary: Fossil of carnivorous predator found in Brazil.
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