Pampaluctor

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Pampaluctor is an extinct genus of metatherian mammal in the Thylacosmilidae, a family of carnivorous, saber-toothed sparassodonts. The genus contains a single species, Pampaluctor calibar, known from a partial skeleton. It is known from the Vorohué Formation of Argentina, which is assigned to the Vorohuean subage of the Marplatan South American land mammal age (SALMA), which is correlated to the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene epochs. With an estimated body mass of around 100 kilograms (220 lb), Pampaluctor is among the largest known mammalian predators from South America. It is also the geologically youngest thylacosmilid (and sparassodont), as other members of this clade did not cross the Plio-Pleistocene boundary.

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