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Ferugliotherium windhauseni

Mammalia

Taxonomy

Ferugliotherium windhauseni was named by Bonaparte (1986). Its type specimen is MACN-RN 20, a tooth (right m2), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian lacustrine - large siltstone/sandstone in the Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Ferugliotherium.

Synonyms

Vucetichia gracilis was named by Bonaparte (1990). Its type specimen is MACN-RN 174, a tooth (worn right m1), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cerrito del Mamifero, Los Alamitos vertebrates, middle section, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the Los Alamitos Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Vucetichia.

It was synonymized subjectively with Ferugliotherium windhauseni by Krause et al. (1992) and Krause (1993).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1986	Ferugliotherium windhauseni Bonaparte p. 55
1990	Vucetichia gracilis Bonaparte p. 77 fig. 12
1990	Ferugliotherium windhauseni Bonaparte p. 79
1993	Ferugliotherium windhauseni Krause p. 321
2004	Ferugliotherium windhauseni Kielan-Jaworowska et al. p. 519

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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

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Allotheria	()
suborder	Gondwanatheria	Mones 1987
genus	Ferugliotherium
species	windhauseni

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.

†Ferugliotherium windhauseni Bonaparte 1986

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Invalid names: Vucetichia gracilis Bonaparte 1990 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

scansorialuc

Diet:

insectivoreuc

Created:

2005-09-06 19:53:51

Modified:

2005-09-07 19:44:02

Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Carroll 1988, Luo et al. 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Hopson 1973

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian	83.5 - 66.0	Argentina (Río Negro)	Ferugliotherium windhauseni (type locality: 45087) Vucetichia gracilis (231686)