Prohegetotherium

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Prohegetotherium
Temporal range:
Ma
Prohegetotherium fossilized lower mandibles.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Hegetotheriidae
Subfamily: †
Hegetotheriinae
Genus: †Prohegetotherium
Ameghino 1897
Species
  • P. sculptum Ameghino 1897 (type)
Synonyms

Prohegetotherium is an extinct genus of hegetotheriid notoungulates from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian in the SALMA classification) of the Agua de la Piedra,[1] Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Petaca and Salla Formations of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Prohegetotherium comprises three species, P. sculptum, P. schiaffinoi, and P. malalhuense.[2] Although Prohegetotherium shumwayi and P. crassus have long been synonymized with P. sculptum, Kramarz and Bond (2017) restricted P. sculptum to the holotype, rejecting the synonymy.[4]

See also

References

  1. ISSN 0567-7920
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  2. ^ a b Prohegetotherium at Fossilworks.org
  3. ISSN 2317-4889
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  4. ^ A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2017. Systematics and stratigraphical range of the hegetotheriids Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus and Prohegetotherium sculptum (Mammalia: Notoungulata). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(12):1027-1036
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