Mammalia - Sparassodonta

PaleoDB taxon number: 53498

Alternative combinations: Perathereuthes pungens, Peratheutes pungens

Synonym: Abderites altiramis Ameghino 1894 (taxon 53497)

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1891. Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles descubiertos por Carlos Ameghino en el Eoceno inferior de la Patagonia austral. – Especies nuevas, adiciones y correcciones [New remains of fossil mammals discovered by Carlos Ameghino in the lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. – New species, additions, and corrections]. Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1:289-328

Belongs to Perathereutes according to L. G. Marshall 1981

Sister taxa: Perathereuthes amputans, Perathereuthes obtusus

Type specimens:

• Perathereutes pungens: MACN 684, a mandible (left mandibular ramus with alveolus of c, roots of p1-3, m1-4 complete but worn). Its type locality is Cerro Observatorio, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina.
• Abderites altiramis: MACN 8250, a mandible (fragment of a right mandibular ramus with talonid of m3, anterior alveolus and posterior root of m4). Its type locality is La Cueva, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial horizon in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore