Xenorhinotherium Cartelle and Lessa 1988 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

Full reference: C. Cartelle and G. Lessa. 1988. Descriçao de um novo genero e especie de Macraucheniidae (Mammalia, Litopterna) do Pleistoceno do Brasil. Paula-Coutiana 3:3-26

Parent taxon: Macraucheniinae according to G. I. Schmidt and B. S. Ferrero 2014

See also Salles et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Cullinia, Huayqueriana, Macrauchenia, Macraucheniopsis, Oxyodontherium, Paranauchenia, Phoenixauchenia, Promacrauchenia, Scalabrinitherium, Windhausenia

Subtaxa: Xenorhinotherium bahiense

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Type: Xenorhinotherium bahiense

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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