Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae
Synonyms: Degonia Roth 1902, Pseudopithecus Roth 1902, Rankelia Roth 1902
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429
Parent taxon: Archaeohyracidae according to G. G. Simpson 1967
See also Ameghino 1901, Carroll 1988 and Reguero and Prevosti 2010
Sister taxa: Archaeohyrax, Archaeotypotherium, Bryanpattersonia, Eohyrax, Isolophodon, Pascualhyrax, Protarchaeohyrax, Punahyrax
Subtaxa: Pseudhyrax eutrachytheroides Pseudhyrax strangulatus
Type: Pseudhyrax eutrachytheroides
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Argentina (1 collection), Chile (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (13)
Total: 15 collections including 24 occurrences
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