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Prohegetotherium sculptum

Mammalia - Notoungulata

Taxonomy

Prohegetotherium sculptum was named by Ameghino (1897). Its type specimen is MACN A 52-443, a maxilla, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Deseadan of Patagonia, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Prohegetotherium.

Synonyms

Prohegetotherium shumwayi was named by Loomis (1914). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cabeza Blanca, which is in a Deseadan terrestrial shale/claystone in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

It was synonymized subjectively with Prohegetotherium sculptum by Reguero and Cerdeño (2005).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1897	Prohegetotherium sculptum Ameghino p. 424 fig. 10
1914	Prohegetotherium shumwayi Loomis pp. 64-65 fig. 29
1986	Prohegetotherium sculptum Marshall et al.
2005	Prohegetotherium sculptum Reguero and Cerdeño
2017	Prohegetotherium sculptum Kramarz and Bond
2017	Prohegetotherium sculptum Seoane et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Afrotheria	Stanhope et al. 1998
—	Paenungulatomorpha
—	Paenungulata	Simpson 1945
—	Sudamericungulata
order	Notoungulata
suborder	Typotheria	Zittel 1892
—	Hegetotheriidae	(Ameghino 1894)
—	Hegetotheriinae	(Ameghino 1894)
genus	Prohegetotherium
species	sculptum

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.

†Prohegetotherium sculptum Ameghino 1897

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Invalid names: Prohegetotherium shumwayi Loomis 1914 [synonym]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
M. A. Reguero and E. Cerdeño 2005	A species of Prohegetotherium larger than P. schiaffinoi and similar in size to H. mirabile. Dentition complete and closed. Lower incisors (i2-i3) and canine not re- duced. Symphysis more robust than P. schiaffinoi and S. alti- planense, with posterior end at the level of p3. Talonid of m3 longer than in P. schiaffinoi, but shorter than in S. altiplanense

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: MacFadden et al. 1996, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002

Age range: Deseadan or 29.00000 to 21.00000 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Deseadan	29.0 - 21.0	Argentina (Mendoza)	Hegetotheriinae indet. (176466)
Deseadan	29.0 - 21.0	Argentina (Chubut)	Prohegetotherium sculptum (49852 146358 176465 176490 type locality: 176647) Prohegetotherium sculptum, Prohegetotherium shumwayi (14211)