Prohegetotherium

Prohegetotherium is an extinct genus of hegetotheriid notoungulates from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian in the SALMA classification) of the Agua de la Piedra,[1] Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Petaca and Salla Formations of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.[2][3]

Prohegetotherium
Prohegetotherium fossilized lower mandibles.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Hegetotheriidae
Subfamily: †Hegetotheriinae
Genus: †Prohegetotherium
Ameghino 1897
Species
  • P. sculptum Ameghino 1897 (type)
Synonyms

Ethegotherium? Minoprio, 1947

Taxonomy

Prohegetotherium comprises three species, P. sculptum, P. schiaffinoi, and P. malalhuense.[2] Although Prohegetotherium shumwayi and P. crassus have long been synonymized with P. sculptum, Kramarz and Bond (2017) restricted P. sculptum to the holotype, rejecting the synonymy.[4]

See also

References
  1. Hernández Del Pino, Santiago; Seoane, Federico; Cerdeño, Esperanza (2022). "New craniodental information and taxonomic decisions of the typotherians (Notoungulata) from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, central-western Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 67. doi:10.4202/app.00974.2022. ISSN 0567-7920.
  2. Prohegetotherium at Fossilworks.org
  3. Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo; Tineo, David Eric; Bona, Paula; Pérez, Leandro Martín; Vergani, Gustavo Dardo; Ruiz, Gloria González; Poiré, Daniel Gustavo (2021-05-14). "A singular Hegetotheriinae (Notoungulata, Typotheria) from the late Oligocene-Early Miocene of the Subandean Region of Bolivia". Brazilian Journal of Geology. 51. doi:10.1590/2317-4889202120200067. ISSN 2317-4889.
  4. A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2017. Systematics and stratigraphical range of the hegetotheriids Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus and Prohegetotherium sculptum (Mammalia: Notoungulata). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(12):1027-1036


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