Chasicotherium
Chasicotherium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Homalodotheriidae |
Genus: | †Chasicotherium Cabrera & Kraglievich 1931[1] |
Species: | †C. rothi
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Binomial name | |
†Chasicotherium rothi Ameghino 1887
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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]
References[]
- ^ Cabrera, A. y Kraglievich, L. 1931. Diagnosis previas de los ungulados fósiles del Arroyo Chasicó. Notas preliminares del Museo de La Plata 1: 107-113.
- ^ Bocchino de Ringuelet, A. (2013). Estudio del género Chasicotherium Cabrera y Kraglievich 1931 (Notoungulata - Homaldotheriidae). Ameghiniana, 1(1-2). http://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/article/view/1083
Categories:
- Toxodonts
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Chasicoan
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1931
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
- Prehistoric placental genera