Biology:Hypsitherium
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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals
| Hypsitherium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Mesotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Hypsitherium Anaya & MacFadden 1995 |
| Species: | †H. bolivianum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hypsitherium bolivianum Anaya & MacFadden 1995
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Hypsitherium is an extinct genus of Mesotheriidae that lived 4.0 to 3 million years ago. It is known from the Miocene to Pliocene Inchasi fossil locality in Bolivia. Hypsitherium was a scansorial herbivore, and its name translates to "high beast."[1][2]
References
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Hypsitherium". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=297023.
- ↑ Anaya, Federico; MacFadden, Bruce J. (December 12, 1995). "Pliocene mammals from Inchasi, Bolivia: The endemic fauna just before the Great American Interchange.". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/files/6714/7181/1712/Vol-39-No-3.PDF. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
Further reading
- B. J. MacFadden, F. Anaya, and J. Argollo. 1993. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Inchasi: a Pliocene mammal-bearing locality from the Bolivian Andes deposited just before the Great American Interchange. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 114(2-3):229-241
Wikidata ☰ Q28220468 entry
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