Eohyrax Ameghino 1901 (notoungulate)

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

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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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