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Villarroelia totoyoi
Discussion
Holotype: IGM 250965, skull lacking the anterior rostrum, with roots of right P1 and with right P2-M3, left P3-M3, and miscellaneous fragmentary postcranial elements
Etymology: Named for Totoy, chief of the indigenous tribe that, in the sixteenth century, inhabitated the banks of the river bearing the same name (now the Rio Villavieja)
Taxonomy
Villarroelia totoyoi was named by Cifelli and Guerrero Diaz (1997). Its type specimen is IGM 250965, a partial skull (Upper P2), and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Villarroelia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1997 | Villarroelia totoyoi Cifelli and Guerrero Diaz |
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†Villarroelia totoyoi Cifelli and Guerrero Diaz 1997
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| R. L. Cifelli and J. Guerrero Diaz 1997 | Proterotheriid roughly the size of Licaphrium mesopotamiense and with generally similar dental morphology, differing from that species and from all comparable taxa in the complete molarization of upper P3-4, with salient conules and with, fully developed, lingually placed hypocone. |