Ernestohaeckelia aculeata Ameghino 1901 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429

Belongs to Ernestohaeckelia according to G. G. Simpson 1948

See also Ameghino 1901

Sister taxon: Ernestohaeckelia acutidens

Type specimen: Its type locality is Casamayoran of Patagonia, which is in a Casamayoran terrestrial horizon in Argentina

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Casamayoran of Patagonia

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