Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeopithecidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1897. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]. Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18(4–9):406-521
Parent taxon: Archaeopithecidae according to B. Vera 2017
See also Ameghino 1897, Carroll 1988, López et al. 2020 and Simpson 1967
Sister taxa: Acropithecus, Teratopithecus
Subtaxa: Archaeopithecus rogeri
Type: Archaeopithecus rogeri
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Argentina (20 collections)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 21 collections including 24 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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