Mammalia - Ungulata - Proterotheriidae
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 Diadiaphorus according to F. Ameghino 1891
See also 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 principale, Proterotherium pyramidatum, Thoatherium velatum, Thoatherium minusculum, Thoatherium crepidatum, Thoatherium karaikense, Thoatherium bilobatum, Thoatherium rhabdodon, Diadiaphorus eversus, Diadiaphorus velox, Diadiaphorus sanctaecrucis, Diadiaphorus caniadensis, Diadiaphorus coelops, Diadiaphorus majusculus, Diadiaphorus minusculus, Diadiaphorus robustus, Epitherium laternarium, Anisolophus minusculus, Heptaconus acer, Tichodon quadrilobus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Diadiaphorus diplinthius in the database
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