Diplasiotherium
Diplasiotherium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Litopterna |
Family: | †Proterotheriidae |
Subfamily: | † |
Genus: | †Diplasiotherium Rovereto, 1914 |
Type species | |
Diplasiotherium robustum Rovereto 1914
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Species | |
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Diplasiotherium is an extinct genus of herbivore litoptern belongs to the family Proterotheriidae, that lived between the late Miocene and the early Pliocene (in the SALMAs Huayquerian and Montehermosan).[1] The fossils of this animal have been found in Argentina, in the .[2][3]
Diplasiotherium is distinguished from other proterotheriids by the crown of its molars, which were higher than in other related genera (protohypsodont), and by its larger body size; the species D. robustum reached approximately 395 kilograms (871 lb) in weight, making it the largest known proterotheriid.[1][4]
References[]
- ^ a b Villafañé et al., 2006, p.161
- ^ Rovereto, Cayetano. 1914. Los estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 25: 1–247.
- ^ Deschamps & Tomassini, 2016, p.224
- ^ Villafañe, A. L. (2005). Paleoecología de los Proterotheriidae (Mammalia, Litopterna): Un estudio basado en los cambios en la masa corporal. Tesis de Licenciatura (inédita), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales (sede Trelew), Universidad de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, 145 págs.
Bibliography[]
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the southern Pampean Region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update in: M. Martínez y D.Olivera (Eds.), Palinología del Meso-Cenozoico de Argentina - Volumen en homenaje a Mirta Elena Quattrocchio. Publicación Electrónica de la 16. 202–225. Accessed 2019-04-08. , and . 2016.
- Cambios en la riqueza taxonómica y en las tasas de primera y última aparición de los Proterotheriidae (Mammalia, Litopterna) durante el Cenozoico. Estudios Geológicos 62. 155–166. Accessed 2019-04-08. ; , and . 2006.
Categories:
- Litopterns
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Pliocene mammals of South America
- Huayquerian
- Montehermosan
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Cerro Azul Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1914
- Prehistoric placental genera