†subfamily Prepotherinae Ameghino 1894 (edentate)

Mammalia - Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae

Alternative spelling: Prepotheridae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1894. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13:259-452

Parent taxon: Megatheriidae according to F. Ameghino 1904

See also Ameghino 1894

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Prepotheriops Proprepotherium

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Las Hornillas bearing level (Miocene of Argentina)

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