Hypsitherium
Appearance
Hypsitherium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Mesotheriidae |
Genus: | †Hypsitherium Anaya & MacFadden, 1995 |
Species: | †H. bolivianum
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Binomial name | |
†Hypsitherium bolivianum Anaya & MacFadden, 1995
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Hypsitherium is an extinct genus of Mesotheriidae that lived 6.8 to 3 million years ago, and is known from the Pliocene of Bolivia. It was a scansorial herbivore, with its name meaning "high beast."[1][2]
References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Hypsitherium". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
- ^ Anaya, Federico; MacFadden, Bruce J. (December 12, 1995). "Pliocene mammals from Inchasi, Bolivia: The endemic fauna just before the Great American Interchange" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2016-09-24.