Cramauchenia normalis Ameghino 1902 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

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

Belongs to Cramauchenia according to F. Ameghino 1902

Sister taxon: Cramauchenia insolitus

Type specimen: MACN A-52-119, a partial skull. Its type locality is Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí, which is in a Colhuehuapian terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (3 collections)

• Deseadan of Argentina (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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