Biology:Chasicotherium
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Short description: Extinct genus of notoungulates
| Chasicotherium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Homalodotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Chasicotherium Cabrera & Kraglievich 1931[1] |
| Species: | †C. rothi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Chasicotherium rothi Ameghino 1887
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Chasicotherium is an extinct genus of a large notoungulate mammal known originally from a partial skull and mandible discovered in the Arroyo Chasicó Formation, in the stream of Party of Villarino, Buenos Aires, Argentina . The sediments in which the animal was discovered dates to 10 to 9 million years (Chasicoan). It is known only from the type species, C. rothi. Its weight was approximately 1 tonne (0.98 long tons; 1.1 short tons), being the largest and most recent member of the family Homalodotheriidae. It was a large herbivore of the Miocene Pampas, closely related to Homalodotherium, which also shares the reduced dental formula of the short premaxilla.[2]
References
- ↑ Cabrera, A. y Kraglievich, L. 1931. Diagnosis previas de los ungulados fósiles del Arroyo Chasicó. Notas preliminares del Museo de La Plata 1: 107-113.
- ↑ Bocchino de Ringuelet, A. (2013). Estudio del género Chasicotherium Cabrera y Kraglievich 1931 (Notoungulata - Homaldotheriidae). Ameghiniana, 1(1-2). http://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/article/view/1083
Wikidata ☰ Q5087293 entry
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