- cusp)
molar teeth,
which is
largely unique to
litopterns among South American native ungulates.
Litopterns of the mid-late
Cenozoic had hinge-like limb...
- and the
litopterns, were the only
groups to
persist beyond the mid Miocene. Only a few of the
largest species of
notoungulates and
litopterns survived...
-
during the GABI,
litopterns remained confined to
South America.
Macrauchenia was
among the last
surviving meridungulates,
along with
litopterns such as Macraucheniopsis...
-
similar to
equivalent South American faunas; with marsupials, xenarthrans,
litoptern, and
astrapotherian ungulates, as well as
gondwanatheres and possibly...
-
contain the
somewhat tapir-like
pyrotheres and astrapotheres, the
mesaxonic litopterns and the
diverse notoungulates. As a whole,
meridiungulates were said to...
-
proboscideans were different, and
native ungulates such as
toxodonts and
litopterns were
completely unfamiliar, yet S. po****tor
thrived as well
there as...
- The
research history of
Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when
Georges Cuvier first described the
fossils of this
extinct artiodactyl and
named the genus...
- for its
abundance of
South American native ungulates (astrapotheres,
litopterns, notoungulates), as well as an
abundance of rodents,
xenarthrans (armadillos...
- with
North American rodents and
primates mixing with
southern forms.
Litopterns and the notoungulates,
South American natives, were
mostly wiped out,...
-
sequence analysis suggests that
notoungulates are
closely related to
litopterns,
another group of
South American ungulates, and
their closest living relatives...
