Campanorco is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammal from the Middle Eocene Lumbrera Formation, Argentina, South America and the only member of the family Campanorcidae.[1] It contains only a single species, Campanorco inauguralis.
Campanorco | |
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Skull of Campanorco inauguralis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Suborder: | †Typotheria |
Family: | †Campanorcidae Bond et al., 1984 |
Genus: | †Campanorco Bond et al., 1984 |
Species: | †C. inauguralis
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Binomial name | |
†Campanorco inauguralis Bond et al., 1984
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References
edit- ^ McKenna and Bell, 1997
Bibliography
edit- 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