- the most
diverse and last
surviving families. The body
forms of many
litopterns,
notably in the limb and
skull structure, are
broadly similar to those...
-
Thoatherium (meaning "active swift-beast") is an
extinct genus of
litoptern mammals from the
Early Miocene of Argentina.
Fossils of the
genus have been...
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Theosodon is an
extinct genus of
litoptern mammal from the
Early to
Middle Miocene of
South America.
Theosodon was long-legged with a long neck resembling...
- and the
litopterns, were the only
groups to
persist beyond the mid Miocene. Only a few (mostly large)
species of
notoungulates and
litopterns survived...
-
similar to
equivalent South American faunas; with marsupials, xenarthrans,
litoptern, and
astrapotherian ungulates, as well as
gondwanatheres and possibly...
-
sequence analysis suggests that
notoungulates are
closely related to
litopterns,
another group of
South American ungulates, and
their closest living relatives...
-
proboscideans were different, and
native ungulates such as
toxodonts and
litopterns were
completely unfamiliar, yet S. po****tor
thrived as well
there as...
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Diadiaphorus is an
extinct genus of
litoptern mammal from the
Miocene of
Argentina (Ituzaingó, Pinturas,
Chiquimil and
Santa Cruz Formations) and Bolivia...
- The
research history of
Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when
Georges Cuvier first described the
fossils of this
extinct artiodactyl and
named the genus...
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Tetramerorhinus is an
extinct genus of
proterotheriid litoptern that
lived during the
Early and
Middle Miocene in what is now
Argentina and Peru. This...
