Scaglia kraglievichorum
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Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran SALMA).[1] The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia,[2] and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich. Its type specimen is MMCNT-MdP 207.[3]
Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.[4]
Notes
- ^ Scaglia in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
- ^ Quintana 2008, pp. 4–5
- ^ Scaglia kraglievichorum in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
- ^ Rose 2006, p. 236
References
- Carroll, Robert Lynn (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 9780716718222. OCLC 14967288.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Quintana, Carlos A. (2008). Los Fósiles de Mar del Plata: Un viaje al pasado de nuestra región. Buenos Aires: Libros del Espinillo. ISBN 9781435737358. Retrieved March 2013.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Rose, Kenneth David (2006). The beginning of the age of mammals. Baltimore: JHU Press. ISBN 0801884721.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Simpson, George Gaylord (1957). "A new Casamayoran astrapothere". Revista del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales y Tradicional de Mar del Plata. 1 (3): 11–18. OCLC 81633287.
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