Puelia coarctatus Ameghino 1901 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notohippidae

Alternative combination: Trimerostephanus coarctatus

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

Belongs to Puelia according to M. Bond and G. M. López 1993

Sister taxa: Puelia plicata, Puelia sigma

Type specimen: MACN 10965, MACN 10966; two lots of various specimens. Its type locality is Mustersan of Patagonia, which is in a Mustersan terrestrial horizon in Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at La Gran Hondonada

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