†family Argyrolagidae Ameghino 1904 (metatherian)

Mammalia - Polydolopimorphia - Argyrolagidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142

Parent taxon: Polydolopimorphia according to F. J. Goin et al. 2009

See also Ameghino 1904, Goin and Abello 2013 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Apeirodon, Bobbschaefferia, Bonapartheriidae, Bonapartheriiformes, Chulpasiinae, Cocatherium, Gashterniidae, Glasbiidae, Hatcheriformes, Polydolopidae, Polydolopiformes, Polydolopoidea, Prepidolopidae, Prepidolops, Pujatodon, Roberthoffstetteria, Wamradolops

Subtaxa: Anargyrolagus Argyrolagus Hondalagus Klohnia Microtragulus Proargyrolagus

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections)

• Pliocene of Argentina (13), Bolivia (3)

• Huayquerian of Argentina (6)

• Miocene of Argentina (6), Bolivia (2), Peru (1)

• Deseadan of Bolivia (3)

• Oligocene of Chile (1), Peru (3)

• Tinguirirican of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Peru (1)

Total: 42 collections including 45 occurrences

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