Diplasiotherium
| Diplasiotherium Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superorder: | Meridiungulata |
| Order: | Litopterna |
| Family: | Proterotheriidae |
| Genus: | Diplasiotherium Rovereto, 1914 |
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Diplasiotherium is an extinct genus of herbivore litoptern belongs to the family Proterotheriidae, that lived between the late Miocene and the early Pliocene (in the SALMAs Huayquerian and Montehermosan).[1] The fossils of this animal have been found in Argentina, in the Monte Hermoso Formation.[2]
Diplasiotherium is distinguished from other proterotheriids by the crown of its molars, which were higher than in other related genera (protohypsodont), and by its larger body size; the species D. robustum reached 395 kg in weight, making it the largest known proterotheriid.[3]
References
- ↑ A. L. Villafañe, E. Ortiz-Jaureguizar, M. Bond, 2006. Cambios en la riqueza taxonómica y en las tasas de primera y última aparición de los Proterotheriidae (Mammalia, Litopterna) durante el Cenozoico. Estudios Geológicos, 62 (1) enero-diciembre 2006, 155–166.
- ↑ Rovereto, Cayetano. 1914. Los estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 25: 1–247.
- ↑ Villafañe, A. L. (2005). Paleoecología de los Proterotheriidae (Mammalia, Litopterna): Un estudio basado en los cambios en la masa corporal. Tesis de Licenciatura (inédita), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales (sede Trelew), Universidad de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, 145 págs.
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