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: Archaeohyracidae according to F. Ameghino 1897
See also Carroll 1988 and Reguero and Prevosti 2010
Sister taxa: Archaeotypotherium, Bryanpattersonia, Eohyrax, Isolophodon, Pascualhyrax, Protarchaeohyrax, Pseudhyrax, Punahyrax
Subtaxa: Archaeohyrax patagonicus Archaeohyrax proavus Archaeohyrax suniensis
Type: Archaeohyrax patagonicus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Deseadan of Argentina (13 collections), Bolivia (4)
• Oligocene of Argentina (2)
• Eocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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