Full reference: R. Hoffstetter. 1952. Les Mammiferes Pleistocenes de la Republique de L´Equateur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 66:1-391
Belongs to Glossotherium according to G. De Iuliis et al. 2017
See also Hoffstetter 1952
Sister taxa: Glossotherium chapadmalense, Glossotherium domesticum, Glossotherium emmersoni, Glossotherium garbanii, Glossotherium giganteum, Glossotherium phoenesis, Glossotherium robustum, Glossotherium wegneri, Eumylodon incertus, Eumylodon bonaerensis, Pseudolestodon injunctus, Pseudolestodon tarijensis
Type specimen: MNHN LAR 237 (formerly EPN V. 1230), a maxilla. Its type locality is La Carolina, which is in a Pleistocene estuary/bay sandstone/tar in Ecuador.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (4 collections), Peru (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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