Mammalia - Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae
Alternative combination: Pachyrucos bonaeriensis
Synonyms: Pachyrucos maximus Ameghino 1908, Pachyrucos miramarensis Ameghino 1908, Paedotherium imperforatum Kraglievich 1926, Paedotherium insigne Burmeister 1888, Paedotherium isolinense Castellanos 1936 [objective synonym]
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1887. Observaciones generales sobre el orden de mamíferos estinguidos sud-americanos llamados toxodontes (Toxodontia) y sinopsis de los géneros y especies hasta ahora conocidos. Anales del Museo de La Plata 1:1-66
Belongs to Paedotherium according to E. Cerdeno and M. Bond 1998
See also Ameghino 1887, Cruz 2011, Rovereto 1914, Tauber et al. 2019 and Vera and Ercoli 2018
Sister taxa: Paedotherium borrelloi, Paedotherium dolichognathus, Paedotherium ictus, Paedotherium kakai, Paedotherium minor, Paedotherium typicum
Type specimens:
- Paedotherium bonaerense: MACN 1184, a maxilla (palatal fragment with incisors and two rows of cheek teeth)
- Pachyrucos maximus:
- Pachyrucos miramarensis:
- Paedotherium imperforatum:
- Paedotherium insigne:
- Paedotherium isolinense:
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Argentina (20)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (4)
Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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