Tegehotherium burmeisteri Ameghino 1904 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae

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

Belongs to Tegehotherium according to F. D. Seoane et al. 2023

See also Ameghino 1904

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MACN-PV 2540, a mandible. Its type locality is Chubut River Valley, Gaiman (Ameghino), which is in a Colhuehuapian terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Chubut River Valley, Gaiman (Ameghino)

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