Mammalia - Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
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 Hapalops according to F. Ameghino 1894
Sister taxa: Hapalops adteger, Hapalops aguirrei, Hapalops angustipalatus, Hapalops antistis, Hapalops atlanticus, Hapalops australis, Hapalops boulei, Hapalops brevipalatus, Hapalops cilindricus, Hapalops cognathus, Hapalops congermanus, Hapalops crassidens, Hapalops crassignathus, Hapalops crassissimus, Hapalops crassissimus, Hapalops curvus, Hapalops depressipalatus, Hapalops diverssidens, Hapalops elongatus, Hapalops forticulus, Hapalops gracilidens, Hapalops grandaevus, Hapalops grandis, Hapalops hyperleptus, Hapalops indifferens, Hapalops infernalis, Hapalops latus, Hapalops longiceps, Hapalops longipalatus, Hapalops minutus, Hapalops platycephalus, Hapalops ponderosus, Hapalops primus, Hapalops rectagulidens, Hapalops robustus, Hapalops rostratus, Hapalops rutimeyeri, Hapalops sectus, Hapalops subcuadratus, Hapalops testudinatus, Hapalops vulpiceps
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Hapalops brachycephalus in the database
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