Proterotherium principale Ameghino 1894 (placental)

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 nitens, Proterotherium perpolitum, Proterotherium politum, Proterotherium pyramidatum, Proterotherium simplicidens, Diadiaphorus majusculus, Diadiaphorus robustus, Diadiaphorus coelops, Diadiaphorus velox, Diadiaphorus caniadensis, Diadiaphorus eversus, Diadiaphorus minusculus, Diadiaphorus diplinthius, Diadiaphorus sanctaecrucis, Epitherium laternarium, Heptaconus acer, Tichodon quadrilobus

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Proterotherium principale in the database

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