Notostylopidae
Notostylopidae | |
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Skull of Notostylops | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Suborder: | †Notioprogonia |
Family: | †Notostylopidae Ameghino 1897 |
Genera | |
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Notostylopidae is an extinct family comprising five genera of notoungulate mammals known from the Late Paleocene (Riochican) to Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican) of Argentina, Brazil and Chile in South America[1]
References[]
- ^ 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
Categories:
- Notoungulates
- Prehistoric mammal families
- Paleogene mammals of South America
- Eocene first appearances
- Rupelian extinctions
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
- Prehistoric mammal stubs