Charruatoxodon
Charruatoxodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Toxodontidae |
Subfamily: | † Toxodontinae
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Genus: | †Charruatoxodon Ferrero et al., 2022 |
Species: | †C. uruguayensis
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Binomial name | |
†Charruatoxodon uruguayensis Ferrero et al, 2022
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Charruatoxodon is an
History
The holotype of the genus, FC-DPV-514, was described in 1842 by Alcide d'Orbigny and Charles Léopold Laurillard, who assigned it to the species Dinotoxodon paranensis. They believed the specimen to come from the Upper Miocene Camacho Formation. The assignation to the species D. paranensis was contested by Pérez-García in 2004, who only assigned it to the genus Dinotoxodon.[1] In 2013, a study by Perea, Rinderknecht, Ubilla, Bostelmann and Martinez assigned it as Toxodontidae indet., and estimated its remains to be more recent than initially thought, likely the result of the fall of a overlying block containing the remains inside an earlier deposit, and assigned it to the Montehermosan-Ensenadan Raigón Formation.[2] In 2022, a revision of the specimen led by Ferrero, Schmidt, Pérez-García, Perea and Ribeiro finally erected the new genus and species Charruatoxodon uruguayensis, using FC-DPV-514 as holotype.[1]
Etymology
The genus name, Charruatoxodon, is composed from the suffix -toxodon, referring to its relative
References
- ^ S2CID 247089081.
- ^ Perea, D.; Rinderknecht, A.; Ubilla, M.; Bostelmann, E.; Martinez, S. (2013). "Mamíferos y estratigrafía del Neógeno de Uruguay". In Brandoni, D.; Noriega, J.I. (eds.). El Neógeno de la Mesopotamia argentina. Vol. Publicación Especial 14. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. pp. 192–206.