Hegetotherium Ameghino 1887 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae

Parent taxon: Hegetotheriinae according to F. D. Seoane et al. 2023

See also Ameghino 1891, Ameghino 1894, Carroll 1988, Croft et al. 2004, Lydekker 1894, Seoane et al. 2017, Sinclair 1908 and VizcaĆ­no et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Hemihegetotheriomorpha, Hemihegetotherium trilobus, Prohegetotherium, Sallatherium, Tegehotherium

Subtaxa: Hegetotherium cerdasensis Hegetotherium mirabile Hegetotherium novum

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (23 collections), Bolivia (2), Chile (4)

• Deseadan of Argentina (1), Uruguay (1)

Total: 31 collections including 33 occurrences

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