Johnbell
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| Johnbell | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Interatheriidae |
| Genus: | †Johnbell Hitz, Flynn & Wyss, 2006 |
| Species: | †J. hatcheri
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| †Johnbell hatcheri Hitz, Flynn & Wyss, 2006
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Johnbell is an extinct genus of ungulates in the family Interatheriidae. The only known species belonging to the genus is Johnbell hatcheri. This animal was named after American paleontologist John Bell Hatcher. This genus is related to Ignigena and the subfamily Interatheriinae. This animal lived in central Chile during the Early Oligocene.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Hitz, Ralph B.; Flynn, John J.; Wyss, André R. (2006). "New Basal Interatheriidae (Typotheria, Notoungulata, Mammalia) from the Paleogene of Central Chile". American Museum Novitates (3520): 1–32. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3520[1:NBITNM]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0082.
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