Interatherium
Interatherium | |
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Skeleton of Interatherium excavatus in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Interatheriidae |
Subfamily: | † |
Genus: | †Interatherium Ameghino 1887 |
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Interatherium is an extinct genus of interatheriid mammal from the Early to Middle Miocene (Santacrucian-Mayoan). Fossils have been found in the , Collón Curá and in Argentina.[1]
References[]
- ^ Interatherium at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography[]
- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
Further reading[]
- Bibliography Of Fossil Vertebrates 1934-1938 by C. I. Camp
Categories:
- Typotheres
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Mayoan
- Laventan
- Colloncuran
- Friasian
- Santacrucian
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1887
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Prehistoric mammal stubs