Mammalia - Notoungulata - Interatheriidae
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 Progaleopithecus according to F. Ameghino 1904
Sister taxon: Progaleopithecus fissurellatus
Type specimen: MNH DES-334, a mandible. Its type locality is Cabeza Blanca, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial shale/claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Deseadan of Argentina (5 collections)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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