Macraucheniopsis

Macraucheniopsis is an extinct genus of litoptern mammal belonging to the family Macraucheniidae from the Middle to Late Pleistocene of Argentina.[1] It, along with Macrauchenia, Neolicaphrium, and Xenorhinotherium were among the youngest known genera of litopterns.[2]

Macraucheniopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Litopterna
Family: Macraucheniidae
Subfamily: Macraucheniinae
Genus: Macraucheniopsis
Paula Couto, 1945
Species:
M. ensenadensis
Binomial name
Macraucheniopsis ensenadensis
Ameghino (1888)
Synonyms

Promacrauchenia ensenadense Ameghino 1888

Classification

Cladogram based in the phylogenetic analysis published by Schmidt et al., 2014, showing the position of Macraucheniopsis:[3]

Proadiantus

Tricoelodus

Polymorphis

Pternoconius

Coniopternium

Cramauchenia

Theosodon

Macraucheniinae

Scalabrinitherium

Oxyodontherium

Huayqueriana

Paranauchenia denticulata

Paranauchenia hystatus

Cullinia

Promacrauchenia

Windhausenia

Xenorhinotherium

Macraucheniopsis

Macrauchenia

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Macraucheniopsis". www.fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
  2. Scherer, Carolina; Pitana, Vanessa; Ribeiro, Ana Maria (2009). "Proterotheriidae and Macraucheniidae (Litopterna, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil". Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia. 12 (3): 231. ISSN 1519-7530.
  3. Schmidt, Gabriela I.; Ferrero, Brenda S. (September 2014). "Taxonomic Reinterpretation of Theosodon hystatus Cabrera and Kraglievich, 1931 (Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Family". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1231–1238. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.837393. hdl:11336/18953.
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