Diplasiotherium
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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 of another proterotheriids by the crown of its molars, that were higher than in other related genera (protohypsodont) and its larger body size: the species D. robustum reaches 395 kg in weight, which make it the largest member known of the proterotheriids.[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.