Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae
Synonym: Toxotemnus Ameghino 1904
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:5-70
Parent taxon: Isotemnidae according to G. G. Simpson 1967
See also Ameghino 1902, Ameghino 1904 and Carroll 1988
Sister taxa: Acoelohyrax, Calodontotherium, Coelostylodon, Colhuapia, Colhuapia rosei, Colhuelia, Distylophorus, Eurystephanodon crassatus, Interhippus deflexus, Isotemnus, Lafkenia, Lafkenia schmidti, Lafkenia sulcifera, Lophocoelus, Pampatemnus, Pehuenia magna, Pelurocoelodon, Pleurocoelodon, Pleurostylodon, Rhyphodon, Thomashuxleya, Thomashuxleya principialis, Trigonolophodon modicus, Trimerostephanos
Subtaxa: Anisotemnus distentus
Type: Isotemnus distentus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Tinguirirican of Argentina (1 collection)
• Eocene of Argentina (6)
Total: 7 collections including 8 occurrences
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