Chasicotherium

Chasicotherium Temporal range: Late Miocene (Chasicoan) ~10–9 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Notoungulata
Family:	†Homalodotheriidae
Genus:	†Chasicotherium Cabrera & Kraglievich 1931[1]
Species:	†C. rothi
Binomial name
†Chasicotherium rothi Ameghino 1887

Chasicotherium is an extinct genus of a large notoungulate mammal known originally from a partial skull with mandible discovered in the , in the stream of the same name of the Party of Villarino, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The sediments in which the animal remains were discovered date to 10 to 9 million years (Chasicoan). It is known only from its type species, C. rothi. Its weight was approximately 1 tonne (0.98 long tons; 1.1 short tons), being the largest and most recent member of the family Homalodotheriidae. It was a great herbivore of the Miocene Pampas, closely related with Homalodotherium, with it shares the reduced dental formula and the short premaxilla.^[2]

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