Eurygenium latirostris Ameghino 1894 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata

Alternative combination: Eurygeniops latirostris

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1894. Sur les oiseaux fossiles de Patagonie; et la faune mammalogique des couches à Pyrotherium. Boletin del Instituto Geographico Argentino 15:501-660

Belongs to Eurygenium according to H. Marani and M. T. Dozo 2008

See also Ameghino 1894, Ameghino 1897 and Shockey 1997

Sister taxa: Eurygenium normalis, Eurygenium pacegnum

Type specimen: MACN A52-70, a partial skull (Premaxilla). Its type locality is Cabeza Blanca, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial shale/claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Cabeza Blanca

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