Proborhyaena | |
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Skull of Proborhyaena gigantea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Sparassodonta |
Family: | †Proborhyaenidae |
Genus: | †Proborhyaena Ameghino, 1897 |
Species: | †P. gigantea
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Binomial name | |
†Proborhyaena gigantea Ameghino, 1897
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Proborhyaena is an extinct genus of proborhyaenid sparassodont that lived during the Oligocene of what is now South America. It is considered to be the largest of the sparassodonts.