Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142
Parent taxon: Macraucheniinae according to G. I. Schmidt and B. S. Ferrero 2014
See also Ameghino 1904, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1993 and Rovereto 1914
Sister taxa: Cullinia, Huayqueriana, Macrauchenia, Macraucheniopsis, Oxyodontherium, Paranauchenia, Phoenixauchenia, Scalabrinitherium, Windhausenia, Xenorhinotherium
Subtaxa: Promacrauchenia antiqua Promacrauchenia calchaquiorum Promacrauchenia chapalmalense Promacrauchenia cristata Promacrauchenia ensenadense
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Argentina (11 collections), Bolivia (5)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (4)
Total: 20 collections including 22 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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