Archaeogaia macachaae Zimicz et al. 2020 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata

Full reference: A. N. Zimicz, M. Fernández, M. Bond, L. Chornogubsky, M. Arnal, M. Cárdenas, and J. C. Fernicola. 2020. Archaeogaia macachaae gen. et sp. nov., one of the oldest Notoungulata Roth, 1903 from the early-middle Paleocene Mealla Formation (Central Andes, Argentina) with insights into the Paleocene-Eocene south American biochronology. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 102772

Belongs to Archaeogaia according to A. N. Zimicz et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IBIGEO-P 73, a mandible. Its type locality is Tonco Valley, which is in a Selandian/Thanetian floodplain sandstone in the Mealla Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Tonco Valley

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