Archaeohyrax is a genus of extinct notoungulate mammal known from the Middle Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina and Bolivia.[1][2]
| Archaeohyrax | |
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| Archaeohyrax patagonicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Archaeohyracidae |
| Genus: | †Archaeohyrax Ameghino, 1897 |
| Type species | |
| †Archaeohyrax patagonicus Ameghino, 1897
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Description edit
The holotype of the type species, A. patagonicus, is a skull with a tall, blunt muzzle, and high-crowned cheek teeth. When the skull is compared to those of the superficially similar hyraxes, the remains suggest a small animal about 45 centimetres (18 in) long. Fossils of Archaeohyrax have been found in the Sarmiento, Agua de la Piedra, and Deseado Formations of Argentina and the Salla Formation of the Salla-Luribay Basin of Bolivia.[3][4]
References edit
- ^ Billet, G., B. Patterson, and C. de Muizon. "The latest Archaeohyracid representatives (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the Deseadan of Bolivia and Argentina." 4th European Meeting on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America. E. Dıaz-Martınez and I. Rábano (eds.). Cuadernos del Museo Geominero. Eds. E. Díaz-Martínez, and I. Rábano. Vol. 8. 2007. [1]
- ^ McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
- ^ Archaeohyrax at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Hernández Del Pino, Santiago; Seoane, Federico; Cerdeño, Esperanza (2022). "New craniodental information and taxonomic decisions of the typotherians (Notoungulata) from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, central-western Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 67. doi:10.4202/app.00974.2022. hdl:11336/202725. ISSN 0567-7920.
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