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species (as well as several other contemporary opossum genera) show a high degree of speciation towards carnivory compared to most living didelphines. Their premolar and molar teeth were proportionally larger than those of living opossums and their grinding facets imply a more dedicated shearing
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Goin, Francisco J.; Ulyses F. J. Pardinas (1996). "Revision de las especies del genero
Hyperdidelphys Ameghino, 1904 (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Didelphidae. Su significacion filogenetica, estratigrafica y adaptativa en el Neogeno del Cono Sur sudamericano". Estudios Geológicos. 52 (5–6): 327–359.
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Cenizo, M.; Soibelzon, E.; Saffer, M.M. (October 2015). "Mammalian predator–prey relationships and reoccupation of burrows in the
Pliocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina): new ichnological and taphonomic evidence".
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Prevosti, F.J.; Forasiepi, A.; Zimicz, N. (2011). "The
Evolution of the Cenozoic Terrestrial Mammalian Predator Guild in South America: Competition or Replacement?".
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428:. It is known from a variety of skeletal remains, rendering it a fairly common species in the area. It is a large opossum species, comparable to the modern
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action; these have been interpreted as "omnivory leading towards carnivory" and as more specialized carnivory in posterior studies. There is evidence that
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Competition: the Ecological History of Late Cenozoic Metatherian Carnivores in South America".
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America's older predatory guilds were dismantling. It co-existed with only a few
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879:Pliocene mammals of South America
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356:displays specialization towards
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457:Thylophorops perplana/perplanus
305:Thylophorops perplana/perplanus
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884:Prehistoric marsupial genera
406:Thylophorops chapadmalensis
346:(and like the still living
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271:Thylophorops chapadmalensis
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590:11336/67625
529:caviomorphs
508:Llallawavis
237:Didelphinae
233:Subfamily:
227:Didelphidae
207:Marsupialia
46:5–2.6
35:Huayquerian
868:Categories
634:11336/2663
539:References
533:armadillos
499:taxa like
394:Lutreolina
377:didelphine
349:Lutreolina
321:didelphine
513:armadillo
426:Argentina
388:Philander
382:Didelphis
358:carnivory
343:Didelphis
337:Philander
326:from the
173:Kingdom:
167:Eukaryota
874:Opossums
783:Q3805941
777:Wikidata
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690:83862150
643:15751319
447:Pliocene
440:holotype
432:in size.
410:Pliocene
368:Taxonomy
328:Pliocene
324:opossums
284:Species
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254:Ameghino
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197:Mammalia
187:Chordata
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177:Animalia
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31:Pliocene
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256:, 1908
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573:2005
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