Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1894. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13:259-452
Belongs to Proterotherium according to F. Ameghino 1894
Sister taxa: Proterotherium acer, Proterotherium americanum, Proterotherium australe, Proterotherium brachygnathum, Proterotherium browni, Proterotherium cavum, Proterotherium cervioides, Proterotherium cingulatum, Proterotherium curtidens, Proterotherium dichotomum, Proterotherium divortium, Proterotherium dogei, Proterotherium intermedium, Proterotherium karaikense, Proterotherium mixtum, Proterotherium perpolitum, Proterotherium politum, Proterotherium principale, Proterotherium pyramidatum, Proterotherium simplicidens, Heptaconus acer, Tichodon quadrilobus, Diadiaphorus velox, Diadiaphorus diplinthius, Diadiaphorus coelops, Diadiaphorus robustus, Diadiaphorus eversus, Diadiaphorus sanctaecrucis, Diadiaphorus minusculus, Diadiaphorus majusculus, Diadiaphorus caniadensis, Epitherium laternarium
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Proterotherium nitens in the database
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