Temporal range: Early-Mid Miocene (Friasian) ~16.3–15.5 Ma
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Mounted skeleton of H. cunninghami in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Notoungulata
Family:
†Homalodotheriidae
Genus:
†Homalodotherium Huxley, 1870
Species[1]
Homalodotherium canepai Bordas, 1941
Homalodotherium crassum Ameghino, 1894
Homalodotherium cunninghami Flower, 1884
Homalodotherium excursum Ameghino, 1894
Homalodotherium segoviae Ameghino, 1891
Synonyms
HomalodonBurmeister 1891
HomalodontheriumTrouessart 1898
HomalodontotheriumFlower 1874
Homalodotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America. Fossils of Homalodotherium have been found in the Middle Miocene (Friasian in the SALMA classification) Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina and the Río Frías Formation of Chile.[2]
Homalodotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America. Fossils of Homalodotherium have been found in the Middle Miocene...
ago South America, North America: Kelenken, Parapropalaehoplophorus, Homalodotherium, Titanis, Canis edwardii, Smilodon gracilis, Hipparion Miocene-Pleistocene:...
in overall bodyform and tooth morphology. The Miocene toxodontian Homalodotherium had claws on its forelimbs and is thought to have had an ecology similar...
Museum of Natural History, 1940. Bryan Patterson: Cranial characters of Homalodotherium. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1934. Bryan Patterson: The...
Thoatherium had legs like those of a horse, Pachyrukhos resembled a rabbit, Homalodotherium was a semibipedal, clawed browser like a chalicothere, and horned Trigodon...
It was a large herbivore of the Miocene Pampas, closely related to Homalodotherium, which also shares the reduced dental formula of the short premaxilla...
Genus Nesodon Family Homalodotheriidae Genus Chasicotherium Genus Homalodotherium Family Oldfieldthomasiidae Family Interatheriidae Genus Protypotherium...
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