Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae

Alternative combination: Prothoatherium lacerum

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Première contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique des couches à Colpodon [First contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Colopdon Beds]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:71-141

Belongs to Lambdaconus according to M. F. Soria 2001

See also Ameghino 1902 and Kramarz and Bond 2005

Sister taxa: Lambdaconus inaequifacies, Lambdaconus suinus

Type specimen: MACN A 52-246, left maxilla bearing P3-M3, a maxilla

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Portezuelo Sumich Norte, Pinturas Fm., Lago Buenos Aires (Miocene of Argentina)

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