Paranauchenia
Paranauchenia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Litopterna |
Family: | †Macraucheniidae |
Subfamily: | †Macraucheniinae |
Genus: | †Paranauchenia |
Species: | †P. denticulata
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Binomial name | |
†Paranauchenia denticulata Ameghino, 1904
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Paranauchenia is an extinct genus of South American litopterns, related to Macrauchenia, belonging to the same family, Macraucheniidae, and is known only from fossil finds in South America. It possessed three toes and long limbs. The species Paranauchenia denticulata lived in the Miocene epoch in Argentina.[1] Fossils have been found in the Ituzaingó Formation.[2]
References[]
- ^ Ameghino, F. 1904a. Nuevas especies de mamíferos Cretáceos y Terciarios de la República Argentina. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 16: 193-208; 17: 162-175, 182-192, 225-240, 241-291.
- ^ Paranauchenia at Fossilworks.org
Categories:
- Litopterns
- Miocene genus extinctions
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Huayquerian
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Ituzaingó Formation
- Paraná Basin
- Fossil taxa described in 1904
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Prehistoric mammal stubs