Acoelohyrax sigma Ameghino 1901 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae

Alternative combination: Trimerostephanos sigma

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429

Belongs to Acoelohyrax according to G. G. Simpson 1967

See also Ameghino 1901 and Bond and López 1993

Sister taxa: Acoelohyrax complicatissimus, Acoelohyrax coronatus

Type specimen: MACN 10967, partial left mandible bearing worn m1-3, a mandible. Its type locality is Mustersan of Patagonia, which is in a Mustersan terrestrial horizon in Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Mustersan of Patagonia

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