Deuterotherium | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Notoungulata |
Family: | † Notohippidae |
Genus: | †
Deuterotherium Ameghino 1895 |
Species: | †D. distichum
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Binomial name | |
†Deuterotherium distichum Ameghino 1895
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Deuterotherium is an extinct genus of South American native ungulates, which lived during the Deseadan age of the Oligocene in what is now Argentina. Its type species is Deuterotherium distichum. [1] It was named by Florentino Ameghino in 1895. [1] The holotype of Deuterotherium distichum is a calcaneum. [2] It was formerly identified as a proterotheriid litoptern. [1] In 1999, Shockey argued Deuterotherium was certainly not a litoptern and interpreted it as a notohippid notoungulate. [2] In research by Soria posthumously [2] published in 2001, Soria considered Deuterotherium a nomen dubium. [3]
Deuterotherium | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Notoungulata |
Family: | † Notohippidae |
Genus: | †
Deuterotherium Ameghino 1895 |
Species: | †D. distichum
|
Binomial name | |
†Deuterotherium distichum Ameghino 1895
|
Deuterotherium is an extinct genus of South American native ungulates, which lived during the Deseadan age of the Oligocene in what is now Argentina. Its type species is Deuterotherium distichum. [1] It was named by Florentino Ameghino in 1895. [1] The holotype of Deuterotherium distichum is a calcaneum. [2] It was formerly identified as a proterotheriid litoptern. [1] In 1999, Shockey argued Deuterotherium was certainly not a litoptern and interpreted it as a notohippid notoungulate. [2] In research by Soria posthumously [2] published in 2001, Soria considered Deuterotherium a nomen dubium. [3]