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Proterotherium australe

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae

Taxonomy
Anchitherium australe was named by Burmeister (1879).

It was recombined as Anisolophus australis by Burmeister (1885); it was recombined as Proterotherium australe by Ameghino (1889) and Lydekker (1894).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. berroi

Synonyms
  • Tetramerorhinus mixtum was named by Ameghino (1894). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Puesto Estancia La Costa, which is in a Santacrucian terrestrial claystone/sandstone in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Proterotherium australe by Soria (2001).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Anchitherium australe Burmeister p. 459
1879Anchitherium australe Burmeister p. 250
1885Anisolophus australis Burmeister
1889Proterotherium australe Ameghino p. 559
1894Tetramerorhinus mixtum Ameghino
1894Proterotherium australe Lydekker p. 62

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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
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Panperissodactyla
orderPanameriungulata
suborderLitopterna(Ameghino 1889)
familyProterotheriidaeAmeghino 1887
tribeBrachytherini
genusProterotherium
speciesaustrale(Burmeister 1879)

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.

†Proterotherium australe Burmeister 1879
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Invalid names: Tetramerorhinus mixtum Ameghino 1894 [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 17:11:35
Modified: 2009-01-05 19:11:35
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1996

Age range: Santacrucian or 17.50000 to 16.30000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Santacrucian17.5 - 16.3Argentina (Santa Cruz) Anisolophus australis (176570 176574 176590 210786) Anisolophus australis, Tetramerorhinus mixtum (176598) Tetramerorhinus mixtum (142533 176576 210153)