Paranauchenia

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]

Paraunauchenia
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Huayquerian)
~9.0–6.8 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Litopterna
Family:
†Macraucheniidae
Genus:
†Paranauchenia
Species:
†P. denticulata
Binomial name
Paranauchenia denticulata
Ameghino, 1904

References
  1. 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.
  2. Paranauchenia at Fossilworks.org


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