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Paranauchenia

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Paraunauchenia
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Huayquerian)
~9.0–6.8 Ma
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Paranauchenia
Species:
P. denticulata
Binomial name
Paranauchenia denticulata
Ameghino, 1904

Paranauchenia is an extinct genus of South American litopterns, related to Macrauchenia, belonging to the same family, Macraucheniidae, and is known only from fossil finds in South America. It possessed three toes and long limbs. The species Paranauchenia denticulata lived in the Miocene epoch in Argentina.[1] Fossils have been found in the Ituzaingó Formation.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ameghino, F. 1904a. Nuevas especies de mamíferos Cretáceos y Terciarios de la República Argentina. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 16: 193-208; 17: 162-175, 182-192, 225-240, 241-291.
  2. ^ Paranauchenia at Fossilworks.org