Scalabrinitherium
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Genus: | Scalabrinitherium Ameghino 1883
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Scalabrinitherium bravardi | |
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Scalabrinitherium is an extinct genus of the family Macraucheniidae. Fossils of this animal were found among the fossils of prehistoric xenarthrans in the Ituzaingó Formation of Argentina.[1]
References[]
- ^ Scalabrinitherium at Fossilworks.org
Further reading[]
- F. Ameghino. 1885. Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles Oligocenos recogidos por el Profesor Pedro Scalabrini y pertenecientes al Museo Provincial de la ciudad del Paraná. Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 8:1-205
- R. Lydekker. 1894. Contributions to a knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina. III - A study of extinct Argentine ungulates. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 2(3):1-86
- Rusconi, С. 1932. Nuevos restos de Scalabrinitherium del Terciario de Paraná y apuntes relativos a su anatomía craneana. Rev. Med. Vet. Buenos Aires 15-19 nos. 2-0 1932 pp. 1-18
Categories:
- Litopterns
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Huayquerian
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Ituzaingó Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1883
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Prehistoric mammal stubs