Trachytypotherium Ameghino 1904 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Typotheriidae

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: Typotheridae according to F. Ameghino 1904

See also Rovereto 1914

Sister taxa: Entelomorphus, Xenotherium

Subtaxa: Trachytypotherium disparile Trachytypotherium internum Trachytypotherium lehmannnitschei Trachytypotherium sp Trachytypotherium superans

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Laguna Blanca and Rio Felix (Miocene of Argentina)

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