Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Synonym: Haplomastodon Hoffstetter 1950
Full reference: A. Cabrera. 1929. Una revisión de los Mastodontes Argentinos. Revista del Museo de la Plata 32:61-146
Parent taxon: Cuvieroniinae according to C. Paula Couto 1956
See also Cabrera 1929, Carroll 1988, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mothé et al. 2012, Mothé et al. 2017, Salles et al. 2006, Shoshani and Tassy 1996 and Shoshani and Tassy 2005
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Haplomastodon (Aleamastodon) Notiomastodon platensis
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (57 collections), Bolivia (1), Brazil (52), Chile (16), Colombia (12), Ecuador (15), Peru (12), Uruguay (6), Venezuela (6)
• Pliocene of Argentina (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Brazil (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Peru (1)
• Neogene of Brazil (1)
Total: 182 collections including 186 occurrences
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