| Prohegetotherium | |
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| Prohegetotherium fossilized lower mandibles. | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Hegetotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Hegetotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Prohegetotherium Ameghino 1897 |
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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, Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Petaca and Salla Formations of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.
Taxonomy
Prohegetotherium comprises three species, P. sculptum, P. schiaffinoi, and P. malalhuense. 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.
See also
References
- ^ 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. hdl:11336/202725. ISSN 0567-7920.
- ^ a b Prohegetotherium at Fossilworks.org
- ^ 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 (2). doi:10.1590/2317-4889202120200067. ISSN 2317-4889.
- ^ 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
