Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae
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: Typotherioidea according to M. A. Reguero and F. J. Prevosti 2010
See also Ameghino 1897, Carroll 1988, Gregory 1910, Reguero et al. 2008, Simpson 1934 and Simpson 1967
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Archaeohyrax Archaeotypotherium Bryanpattersonia Eohyrax Isolophodon Pascualhyrax Protarchaeohyrax Pseudhyrax Punahyrax
Type: Archaeohyrax
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Deseadan of Argentina (15 collections), Bolivia (4)
• Oligocene of Argentina (8), Chile (2)
• Tinguirirican of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (1), Peru (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (29)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 63 collections including 92 occurrences