Huayqueriana

Huayqueriana Temporal range: Late Miocene (Huayquerian) ~9–7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Litopterna
Family:	†Macraucheniidae
Subfamily:	†Macraucheniinae
Genus:	†Huayqueriana Rovereto 1914
Species:	†H. cristata
Binomial name
†Huayqueriana cristata Rovereto 1914
Synonyms
Macrauchenidia latidens Cabrera 1939 Huayqueria cristata Riggs and Patterson 1939 Promacrauchenia (Huayqueriana) cristata Kraglievich 1934

Huayqueriana is an extinct genus of South American litoptern, related to Macrauchenia, and belonging to the same family, Macraucheniidae. It was formerly known as Macrauchenidia latidens, described in 1939 by Cabrera, but redefined as Huayqueriana in 2016 based on the earlier name convention of Rovereto 1914.^[1][2] The genus is named after the Huayquerías Formation and the eponymous Huayquerian South American land mammal age defined at the formation.

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• Forasiepi, Analía M.; Ross D.E. MacPhee; Santiago Hernández del Pino; Gabriela I. Schmidt; Eli Amson, and Camille Grohé. 2016. Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the Late Miocene of Argentina: anatomy, systematics and paleobiological implications. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 404. 1–76. Accessed 2018-10-01.

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