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Paedotherium typicum

Mammalia - Notoungulata

Taxonomy
Pachyrucos typicus was named by Ameghino (1887). Its type specimen is MLP 12-1782, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Paedotherium typicum by Cerdeno and Bond (1998) and Vera and Ercoli (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Pachyrucos typicus Ameghino p. 15
1894Pachyrucos typicus Lydekker p. 4
1908Pachyrucos brusquitaensis Ameghino p. 422
1908Pachyrucos chapalmalensis Ameghino p. 422
1908Pachyrucos marplatensis Ameghino p. 422
1914Pachyrucos typicus Rovereto p. 117
1914Pachyrucos chapalmalensis Rovereto p. 180
1914Pachyrucos brusquitaensis Rovereto p. 181
1914Pachyrucos marplatensis Rovereto p. 181
1952Paedotherium marplatense Kraglievich
1956Paedotherium brusquitaense Castellanos p. 228
1956Paedotherium chapadmalense Castellanos p. 228
1998Paedotherium typicum Cerdeno and Bond p. 803
2018Paedotherium typicum Vera and Ercoli

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
—Paenungulatomorpha
—PaenungulataSimpson 1945
—Sudamericungulata
orderNotoungulata
suborderTypotheriaZittel 1892
—Hegetotheriidae(Ameghino 1894)
—Pachyrukhinae(Kraglievich 1934)
—Pachyrukhini
genusPaedotheriumBurmeister 1888
speciestypicum(Ameghino 1887)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Paedotherium typicum Ameghino 1887
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Invalid names: Paedotherium brusquitaense Ameghino 1908 [synonym], Paedotherium chapadmalense Ameghino 1908 [synonym], Paedotherium marplatense Ameghino 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialsubc
Diet: herbivoreo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2009-01-05 17:11:49
Modified: 2009-01-05 19:11:49
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, MacFadden et al. 1996, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Huayquerian to the top of the Lujanian or 8.00000 to 0.01200 Ma

Collections (13 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Huayquerian8.0 - 5.0Argentina (Mendoza) Paedotherium typicum (200444)
Montehermosan5.0 - 3.8Argentina (Buenos Aires) Paedotherium typicum (152081 152084 152085 152088 198863)
Chapadmalalan4.0 - 3.0Argentina (San Luis) Paedotherium typicum (152073)
Chapadmalalan4.0 - 3.0Argentina (Buenos Aires) Paedotherium chapadmalense (198844) Paedotherium typicum (202340)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Argentina (Entre Rios) Paedotherium typicum (79631 207682)
Lujanian0.781 - 0.012Argentina (Entre Ríos) Paedotherium typicum (212840)
Lujanian0.781 - 0.012Argentina (Buenos Aires) Paedotherium typicum (202096)