†family Macraucheniidae Ameghino 1889 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

Alternative spelling: Macrauchenidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1889. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic]. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6:xxxii-1027

Parent taxon: Litopterna according to B. J. Shockey et al. 2009

See also Ameghino 1885, Ameghino 1889, Carroll 1988, Cifelli 1983, Cope 1881, Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Jaekel 1911, Lydekker 1894, MacFadden et al. 1993, Paula Couto 1952, Rusconi 1934, Scott 1913, Simpson 1934 and Simpson 1948

Sister taxa: Adianthidae, Eolicaphrium, Eolitopterna, Lambdaconus elegans, Lopholipterna, Mesorhinidae, Notonychopidae, Paulogervaisia celata, Proacrodon, Proacrodon transformatus, Proadiantus gibbus, Proterotheriidae, Protolipternidae, Sparnotheriodontidae, Thoatheriopsis

Subtaxa: Amilnedwardsia Cramaucheniinae Ernestohaeckelia Llullataruca Macrauchenidia Macraucheniinae Macrauchenopsis Notodiaphorus Polymorphinae Pseudomacrauchenia Rutimeyeria Victorlemoineia

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (19 collections), Bolivia (8), Brazil (22), Chile (4), Paraguay (2), Peru (3), Uruguay (7), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene of Argentina (12), Bolivia (4)

• Montehermosan of Argentina (9), Bolivia (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (41), Bolivia (7), Brazil (2), Chile (5), Colombia (5), Peru (4), Uruguay (1)

• Neogene of Argentina (1)

• Deseadan of Argentina (3), Bolivia (3), Peru (3)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (10), Brazil (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1)

Total: 185 collections including 226 occurrences

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