Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Première contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique des couches à Colpodon [First contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Colopdon Beds]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:71-141
Parent taxon: Proterotheriidae according to W. B. Scott 1913
See also Ameghino 1902 and Carroll 1988
Sister taxa: Anisolambda, Anisolambda nodulosa, Anisolambdinae, Anisolophus, Brachytherini, Caliphrium, Deuterotherium, Diplasiotherium, Eoauchenia, Eoproterotherium, Eoprotherotherium, Epecuenia, Guilielmofloweria, Heteroglyphis, Lambdaconus, Licaphrops, Lophogododon, Megadolodinae, Mesolicaphrium, Neodolodus, Neolicaphrium, Olisanophus, Paramacrauchenia, Phoradiadius, Picturotherium, Polyacrodon, Prolicaphrium, Promylophis, Proterotheriinae, Proterotherini, Ricardolydekkeria, Tetramerorhinus, Thoatherium, Villarroelia, Xesmodon
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution: found only at Duke-ING locality 040 (La Venta Fauna) (Miocene of Colombia)
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