
%0 Journal Article
%A Churcher, C. S. 
%T Dental functional morphology in the marsupial sabre-tooth Thylacosmilus atrox (Thylacosmilidae) compared to that of the felid sabre-tooths.
%J Australian Mammalogy
%D 1985/10/01
%V 8
%N 4
%P 201-220
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AM85020
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AM85020 
%X 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. 
