Biology:Uruguaytherium
| Uruguaytherium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Astrapotheria |
| Family: | †Astrapotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Uruguaytheriinae |
| Genus: | †Uruguaytherium Kraglievich, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| Uruguaytherium beaulieui Kraglievich, 1928
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Uruguaytherium is an extinct genus of astrapotherid mammal from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene of South America. It was named by the Argentinean paleontologist Lucas Kraglievich in 1928, from a fragmentary fossil found in the Fray Bentos Formation of the department of Río Negro in Uruguay, and the type species is U. beaulieui.[1] The related genera Xenastrapotherium and Granastrapotherium, which make up Uruguaytheriinae with Uruguaytherium, are also from South America, although them colonizated the equatorial zone.[2] The holotype specimen of Uruguaytherium is a partial mandible (the left mandibular ramus), with a preserved third molar, or M3.[3]
Phylogeny
Cladogram based in the phylogenetic analysis published by Vallejo-Pareja et al., 2015, showing the position of Uruguaytherium:[2]
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References
- ↑ Uruguaytherium at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 M. C. Vallejo-Pareja; J. D. Carrillo; J. W. Moreno-Bernal; M. Pardo-Jaramillo; D. F. Rodriguez-Gonzalez; J. Muñoz-Duran (2015). "Hilarcotherium castanedaii, gen. et sp. nov., a new Miocene astrapothere (Mammalia, Astrapotheriidae) from the Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (2): e903960. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.903960. Bibcode: 2015JVPal..35E3960V. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/109178/2/Vallejo_Pareja_etal_SD-1.pdf.
- ↑ Giollot, C; Antoine, P.O.; Tejada, J.; Pujos, F.; Salas Gismondi, R. (2011). "Middle Miocene Uruguaytheriinae (Mammalia, Astrapotheria) from Peruvian Amazonia and a review of the astrapotheriid fossil record in northern South America". Geodiversitas 33 (2): 331–345. doi:10.5252/g2011n2a8. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232684705.
Further reading
- L. Kraglievich, 1928. "Sobre el supuesto Astrapotherium Christi Stehlin descubierto en Venezuela (Xenastrapotherium n. gen.) y sus relaciones con Astrapotherium magnum y Uruguaytherium beaulieui". p. 1-16
Wikidata ☰ Q15958319 entry
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