Hegetotheriidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals known from the Oligocene through the Pliocene of South America.[1][2]

Hegetotheriidae
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Late Pliocene
Prosotherium garzoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Suborder: Typotheria
Family: Hegetotheriidae
Ameghino, 1894
Subfamilies and genera

Hegetotheriinae

Pachyrukhinae

References edit

  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
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Hegetotheriidae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.