Paranauchenia Ameghino 1904 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142

Parent taxon: Macraucheniinae according to G. I. Schmidt and B. S. Ferrero 2014

See also Ameghino 1904 and Cione et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Cullinia, Huayqueriana, Macrauchenia, Macraucheniopsis, Oxyodontherium, Phoenixauchenia, Promacrauchenia, Scalabrinitherium, Windhausenia, Xenorhinotherium

Subtaxa: Paranauchenia denticulata Paranauchenia denticulatum Paranauchenia hystatus

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Type: Scalabrinitherium denticulatum

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Huayquerian of Argentina (2 collections)

• Miocene of Argentina (2)

Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences

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