Hegetotherium novum Bordas 1939 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae

Alternative combination: Prohegetotherium novum

Belongs to Hegetotherium according to F. D. Seoane and E. Cerdeño 2019

See also Kramarz and Bond 2017 and Seoane et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Hegetotherium cerdasensis, Hegetotherium mirabile

Type specimen: MACN Pv 11749, a skull (skull with right fragmented I1 and I3–M3 and left I2, C–M3). Its type locality is Bryn Gwyn (Sarmiento Fm), which is in a Colhuehuapian terrestrial mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Bryn Gwyn (Sarmiento Fm)

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