Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Synonyms: Anchistrum Ameghino 1901, Coelostylops Ameghino 1901, Dialophus Ameghino 1901, Parastylops Ameghino 1897, Paratemnus Ameghino 1904, Porotemnus Ameghino 1902, Tychostylops Ameghino 1901
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1897. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]. Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18(4–9):406-521
Parent taxon: Isotemnidae according to G. G. Simpson 1967
See also Ameghino 1897, Ameghino 1901, Ameghino 1902, Ameghino 1904 and Carroll 1988
Sister taxa: Acoelohyrax, Anisotemnus, Calodontotherium, Coelostylodon, Colhuapia, Colhuapia rosei, Colhuelia, Distylophorus, Eurystephanodon crassatus, Interhippus deflexus, Isotemnus, Lafkenia, Lafkenia schmidti, Lafkenia sulcifera, Lophocoelus, Pampatemnus, Pehuenia magna, Pelurocoelodon, Pleurocoelodon, Rhyphodon, Thomashuxleya, Thomashuxleya principialis, Trigonolophodon modicus, Trimerostephanos
Subtaxa: Pleurostylodon bifidus Pleurostylodon complanatus Pleurostylodon crassiramis Pleurostylodon modicus Pleurostylodon notabilis Pleurostylodon recticrista Pleurostylodon similis
Type: Pleurostylodon modicus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Tinguirirican of Argentina (1 collection)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (25)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Argentina (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 29 collections including 51 occurrences
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