Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae

Full reference: A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2005. Los Litopterna (Mammalia) de la Formación Pinturas, Mioceno temprano-medio de Patagonia. Ameghiniana 42(3):611-626

Belongs to Diadiaphorus according to A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond 2005

Sister taxa: Proterotherium acer, Proterotherium americanum, Proterotherium australe, Proterotherium brachygnathum, Proterotherium browni, Proterotherium cavum, Proterotherium cervioides, Proterotherium cingulatum, Proterotherium curtidens, Proterotherium dichotomum, Proterotherium divortium, Proterotherium dogei, Proterotherium intermedium, Proterotherium karaikense, Proterotherium mixtum, Proterotherium nitens, Proterotherium perpolitum, Proterotherium politum, Proterotherium principale, Proterotherium pyramidatum, Proterotherium simplicidens, Heptaconus acer, Tichodon quadrilobus, Diadiaphorus eversus, Diadiaphorus velox, Diadiaphorus diplinthius, Diadiaphorus minusculus, Diadiaphorus coelops, Diadiaphorus robustus, Diadiaphorus majusculus, Diadiaphorus sanctaecrucis, Epitherium laternarium

Type specimen: MACN Pv SC4241. Its type locality is La Cañada, Pinturas Fm., Río Chico, Santa Cruz, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial horizon in the Pinturas Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at La Cañada, Pinturas Fm., Río Chico, Santa Cruz

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