Proborhyaena is an extinct genus of proborhyaenid sparassodont that lived during the Oligocene of South America. It is considered to be the largest of the sparassodonts.
Proborhyaena is an extinct genus of proborhyaenid sparassodont that lived during the Oligocene of South America. It is considered to be the largest of the sparassodonts.
==Description== Proborhyaena was very large in size, with the skull alone reaching up to , and the whole animal may have been as large as a present-day spectacled bear. Sorkin (2008) speculated that Proborhyaena gigantea may have weighed up to , but subsequent studies consider this an overestimate and argue that it would have weighed up to .
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).