Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Middle Pleistocene[1]
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Mesotherium cristatum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Notoungulata
Suborder:
†Typotheria
Family:
†Mesotheriidae Alston, 1876
Subfamilies & genera[2]
†Fiandraiinae
†Fiandraia
†Mesotheriinae
†Altitypotherium
†Caraguatypotherium
†Eotypotherium
†Eutypotherium
†Hypsitherium
†Mesotherium
†Microtypotherium
†Plesiotypotherium
†Pseudotypotherium
†Typotheriopsis
†Trachytheriinae
†Trachytherus
Mesotheriidae ("Middle Beasts") is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals known from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene of South America. Mesotheriids were small to medium-sized herbivorous mammals adapted for digging.
^First appearance from Reguero and Castro (2004) with age of fauna following Shockey and Flynn (2007); last appearance from McKenna & Bell (1997).
^Compiled from McKenna & Bell (1997), Reguero and Castro (2004), and Shockey et al. (2007).
Mesotheriidae ("Middle Beasts") is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals known from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene of South America. Mesotheriids...
that Homalodotheriidae, Leontiniidae, Toxodontidae, Interatheriidae, Mesotheriidae, and Hegetotheriidae are the only monophyletic families of notoungulates...
around 200,000 years ago. The last member of the notoungulate family Mesotheriidae, Mesotherium, has its last records around 220,000 years ago, leaving...
Pleistocene. "D. Croft SA Mammals: Mesotheriidae". D. Croft. 2007-01-02. Archived from D. Croft SA Mammals: Mesotheriidae the original on 2009-12-24. Retrieved...
disputed; in 1976, its discoverer, Roselli, assigned it in the family Mesotheriidae; in 1978, in Mones & Ubilla, it was considered part of Interatheriidae;...
includes five families: Archaeopithecidae, Campanorcidae, Interatheriidae, Mesotheriidae, and Oldfieldthomasiidae. Cifelli indicated that Typotheria would be...
†Oldfieldthomasiidae Family †Interatheriidae Family †Campanorcidae Family †Mesotheriidae Suborder †Hegetotheria Family †Archaeohyracidae Family †Hegetotheriidae...
García, Marcelo; Corgne, Alexandre (2017-04-01). "Peltephilidae and Mesotheriidae (Mammalia) from late Miocene strata of Northern Chilean Andes, Caragua"...
Family Archaeopithecidae Family Campanorcidae Genus Campanorco Family Mesotheriidae Subfamily Fiandraiinae Genus Fiandraia Subfamily Mesotheriinae Genus...
Typotheriopsis is an extinct genus of Notoungulate, belonging to the family Mesotheriidae, which included several small sized Meridiungulates specialized in digging...
Hypsitherium is an extinct genus of Mesotheriidae that lived 4.0 to 3 million years ago. It is known from the Miocene to Pliocene Inchasi fossil locality...
the name "Typotheriidae" lost its validity and is now synonymous with Mesotheriidae. Several other species have been assigned to Trachytherus, such as T...
A. (2022). "The last record of the last typotherid (Notoungulata, Mesotheriidae, Mesotherium cristatum) for the middle Pleistocene of the western Pampean...
Paleontology 34. 941–950. . Cerdeño, Esperanza. 2014. First Record of Mesotheriidae in the Late Oligocene of Mendoza Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 51...
infraorbital foramen. Plesiotypotherium is a derived member of the family Mesotheriidae, a family of notoungulates whose representatives, while superficially...
Esperanza; Bárbara Vera, and Ana María Combina. 2018. A new early Miocene Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) from the Mariño Formation (Argentina): Taxonomic and...
given due to the relative antiquity of this taxon compared to other Mesotheriidae. The genus is known from various remains of small-sized skulls, with...
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