Biology:Leontiniidae

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Short description: Extinct family of mammals

Leontiniidae
Temporal range: Middle Eocene-Late Miocene
(Mustersan-Huayquerian)
~48.6–7.3 Ma
Leontinia gaudryi
Scientific classification e
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Ameghino, 1895
Genera[3]
  • Anayatherium Shockey, 2005[1]
  • Ancylocoelus Ameghino, 1895
  • Colpodon Burmeister, 1885
  • Coquenia Deraco et al., 2008
  • Elmerriggsia Shockey et al., 2012
  • Gualta Cerdeño & Vera, 2015[2]
  • Henricofilholia Ameghino, 1901
  • Huilatherium Villarroel & Guerrero Diaz, 1985
  • Leontinia Ameghino, 1895
  • Martinmiguelia Bond & López, 1995
  • Purperia Paula Couto, 1982
  • Pyralophodon Ameghino, 1904
  • Rodiotherium
  • Scaphops
  • Scarrittia Simpson, 1934
  • Stenogenium
  • Taubatherium Soria & Alvarenga, 1989
  • Termastherium Wyss et al., 2018

Leontiniidae is an extinct family comprising eighteen genera of notoungulate mammals known from the Middle Eocene (Mustersan) to Late Miocene (Huayquerian) of South America.

References

  1. Bruce J. Shockey. New leontinids (Class Mammalia, order Notoungulata, family Leontiniidae) from the Salla beds of Bolivia (Deseadan, Late Oligocene). Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. Hist. (2005) 45(4): 249–260
  2. Esperanza Cerdeño and Bárbara Vera (2014). "A new Leontiniidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene beds of Mendoza Province, Argentina". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 (11): 943–962. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.982727. 
  3. Leontiniidae at fossilworks.org (retrieved 3 June 2022)

Further reading

  • M. V. Deraco, J. E. Powell, and G. Lopez. 2008. Primer leontínido (Mammalia, Notoungulata) de la Formación Lumbrera (Subgrupo Santa Bárbara, Grupo Salta-Paleógeno) del noroeste argentino. Ameghiniana 45(1):83–91
  • McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
  • B. J. Shockey, J. J. Flynn, D. A. Croft, P. Gans, and A. R. Wyss. 2012. New leontiniid Notoungulata (Mammalia) from Chile and Argentina: comparative anatomy, character analysis, and phylogenetic hypotheses. American Museum Novitates 3737:1–64
  • A. R. Wyss, J. J. Flynn, and D. A. Croft. 2018. New Paleogene Notohippids and Leontiniids (Toxodontia; Notoungulata; Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna of the Andean Main Range, Central Chile. American Museum Novitates 3903:1–42

Wikidata ☰ Q845881 entry