Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notopithecidae

Synonyms: Adpithecus reduncus Ameghino 1902, Antepithecus interrasus Ameghino 1904, Gonopithecus trigonodontoides Ameghino 1904, Infrapithecus cinctus Ameghino 1901, Pseudadiantus imperfectus Ameghino 1901, Pseudadiantus secans Ameghino 1901

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 Antepithecus according to B. Vera and E. Cerdeño 2014

See also Ameghino 1901, Ameghino 1902, Ameghino 1904, Marshall et al. 1986, Reguero and Prevosti 2010 and Simpson 1967

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

• Antepithecus brachystephanus: Its type locality is Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca, which is in a Bartonian terrestrial claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina
• Adpithecus reduncus: MACN-A 10858a, a mandible. Its type locality is Casamayoran of Patagonia, which is in a Casamayoran terrestrial horizon in Argentina.
• Antepithecus interrasus: MACN-A 10859a, a mandible. Its type locality is Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca, which is in a Bartonian terrestrial claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
• Gonopithecus trigonodontoides:
• Infrapithecus cinctus: MACN-A 10826, a mandible. Its type locality is Barranca south of Lago Colhue-Huapi, Gran Barranca, which is in a Bartonian terrestrial claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.
• Pseudadiantus imperfectus: MACN-Pv 12677, a mandible. Its type locality is Casamayoran of Patagonia, which is in a Casamayoran terrestrial horizon in Argentina.
• Pseudadiantus secans: MACN-A 10669a, a mandible. Its type locality is Casamayoran of Patagonia, which is in a Casamayoran terrestrial horizon in Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

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