Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notopithecidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429
Parent taxon: Notopithecidae according to B. Vera 2016
See also Ameghino 1901, Carroll 1988, Reguero and Prevosti 2010, Simpson 1935, Simpson 1967 and Vera 2012
Sister taxa: Antepithecus, Eupithecops, Guilielmoscottia, Notopithecus
Subtaxa: Transpithecus obtentus
Type: Transpithecus obtentus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Argentina (10 collections)
Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences
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