Mammalia - Notoungulata - Protypotheriidae
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: Protypotheridae according to F. Ameghino 1897
See also Carroll 1988
Sister taxa: Caenophilus, Phanophilus
Subtaxa: Archaeophylus patrius Archaeophylus yunnanensis
Type: Archaeophylus patrius
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Deseadan of Argentina (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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