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.jpg
Leontinia gaudryi
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Clade: Eutoxodontia
Family: Leontiniidae
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

Wikidata ☰ Q845881 entry