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 Diadiaphorus 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 principale, Proterotherium pyramidatum, Proterotherium simplicidens, Heptaconus acer, Tichodon quadrilobus, Diadiaphorus caniadensis, Diadiaphorus majusculus, Diadiaphorus minusculus, Diadiaphorus diplinthius, Diadiaphorus eversus, Diadiaphorus coelops, Diadiaphorus sanctaecrucis, Diadiaphorus velox, Epitherium laternarium
Type specimen: Its type locality is Puesto Estancia La Costa, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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