Protypotherium compressidens Ameghino 1891 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1891. Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles descubiertos por Carlos Ameghino en el Eoceno inferior de la Patagonia austral. – Especies nuevas, adiciones y correcciones [New remains of fossil mammals discovered by Carlos Ameghino in the lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. – New species, additions, and corrections]. Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1:289-328

Belongs to Protypotherium according to M. Fernández et al. 2023

See also Ameghino 1891, Ameghino 1894 and Sinclair 1909

Sister taxa: Protypotherium antiquum, Protypotherium australe, Protypotherium claudum, Protypotherium colloncurensis, Protypotherium columnifer, Protypotherium diastematum, Protypotherium distinctum, Protypotherium furculosus, Protypotherium icochiloides, Protypotherium leptocephalus, Protypotherium minutum, Protypotherium obstructum, Protypotherium praerutilum, Protypotherium rectus

Type specimen: MACN-A 4029, and MACN-A 4030, a maxilla (left maxillary fragment with P3–M3; and left mandibular fragment with p4 (talonid)–m3, of the same individual)

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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