Temporal range: Early-Late Eocene (Casamayoran-Divisaderan) ~48.6–37.2 Ma
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Notostylops
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Notoungulata
Family:
†Notostylopidae
Genus:
†Notostylops Ameghino, 1897
Species
N. murinus(type species) Ameghino, 1897
N. appressus(Ameghino, 1902)
N. pendens(Ameghino, 1901)
N. pigafettaiSimpson, 1948
Synonyms
AnastylopsAmeghino, 1897
CatastylopsAmeghino, 1901
EntelostylopsAmeghino, 1901
EostylopsAmeghino, 1901
IsostylopsAmeghino, 1902
PliostylopsAmeghino, 1901
Notostylops ("south pillar face") is a genus of extinct South American ungulates from Eocene Argentina. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Sarmiento, Casamayor, Andesitas Huancache and Koluel Kaike Formations.[1]
Size comparison of Notostylops murinus with a human.
Koluel Kaike Formations. Size comparison of Notostylops murinus with a human. Life reconstruction. Notostylops was a very generalized animal, very similar...
have developed a rabbit-like bounding locomotion. The basal notungulate Notostylops and the mesotheriids are suggested to have engaged in digging, with mesotheriids...
PMID 10667791. S2CID 4404799. Simpson, G.G. (1933). "A new fossil snake from the Notostylops beds of Patagonia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History...
Phenacodus and Notostylops, but with some observable differences. Rhyphodon had slightly smaller olfactory bulbs than the basal notoungulate Notostylops, and those...
Ameghiniana 20, 47–60. Simpson, G. G. 1932. Skulls and brains of some mammals from the Notostylops beds of Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 578, 1-11....
Paleocene–Pleistocene Family Henricosborniidae Family Notostylopidae Genus Notostylops Family Isotemnidae Genus Thomashuxleya Family Leontiniidae Genus Scarrittia...
as Pyrotherium are a group of specialized notoungulates, related to Notostylops, although this is still a controversial idea. Cladogram based on the...
(Riochican-Tinguirirican) ~58.7–28.4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Skull of Notostylops Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:...
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Size comparison of Notostylops murinus with a human.
Life reconstruction.
