Paedotherium ictus Ameghino 1889 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Hegetotheriidae

Alternative combination: Pachyrucos ictus

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1889. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic]. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6:xxxii-1027

Belongs to Paedotherium according to Castellanos 1956

See also Ameghino 1889 and Rovereto 1914

Sister taxa: Paedotherium bonaerense, Paedotherium borrelloi, Paedotherium dolichognathus, Paedotherium kakai, Paedotherium minor, Paedotherium typicum

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Paedotherium ictus in the database

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