Promacrauchenia cristata Rovereto 1914 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

Ecology: terrestrial herbivore

Full reference: C. Rovereto. 1914. Los Estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Buenos Aire 25:1-247

Belongs to Promacrauchenia according to Rovereto 1914

See also Riggs and Patterson 1939

Sister taxa: Promacrauchenia antiqua, Promacrauchenia calchaquiorum, Promacrauchenia chapalmalense, Promacrauchenia ensenadense

Type specimen: MACN-PV 8463, a partial skull (fragmentary skull and associated dentaries). Its type locality is Huayquerías de Biluco, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene terrestrial sandstone in Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Promacrauchenia cristata in the database

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