Proschismotherium Ameghino 1902 (edentate)

Mammalia - Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1902. Première contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique des couches à Colpodon [First contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Colopdon Beds]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17:71-141

Parent taxon: Metopotherinae according to F. Ameghino 1902

See also Carroll 1988

Sister taxon: Hapaloides

Subtaxa: Proschismotherium oppositum

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Type: Proschismotherium oppositum

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Gran Barranca - southern cliff of lake Colhué Huapí (Miocene of Argentina)

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