Pyrotherium pluteum Ameghino 1901 (placental)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Pyrotheridae

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 Pyrotherium according to F. Ameghino 1901

Sister taxa: Pyrotherium giganteum, Pyrotherium macfaddeni, Pyrotherium planum, Pyrotherium romerii, Pyrotherium sorondoi

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pyrotherium pluteum in the database

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