Mammalia - Notoungulata - Archaeohyracidae
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: Archaeohyracidae according to G. G. Simpson 1967
See also Ameghino 1901, Carroll 1988 and Reguero and Prevosti 2010
Sister taxa: Archaeohyrax, Archaeotypotherium, Bryanpattersonia, Isolophodon, Pascualhyrax, Protarchaeohyrax, Pseudhyrax, Punahyrax
Subtaxa: Eohyrax brachyodus Eohyrax isotemnoides Eohyrax platyodus Eohyrax praerusticus Eohyrax rusticus
Type: Eohyrax rusticus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Argentina (13 collections)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 14 collections including 16 occurrences
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