-
tarsus suggested that the
xenungulates had a
common ancestry with
typical pyrotheres, such as Pyrotherium, but a more
recent examination of the
tarsus of Pyrotherium...
- also
challenged the
monophyly of
Meridiungulata by
suggesting that the
pyrotheres are more
closely related to
other mammals, such as
Embrithopoda (an African...
- extinct. The
South American meridiungulates contain the
somewhat tapir-like
pyrotheres and astrapotheres, the
mesaxonic litopterns and the
diverse notoungulates...
-
lophodonty is
present in
basal pyrotheres,
there is
reason to ****ume that
bilophodonty evolved separately in
xenungulates and
pyrotheres.
Xenungulates also show...
-
groups of
mammals from
South America, such as the
vaguely elephant-like
pyrotheres and the dog-like
marsupial relatives called borhyaenids and the monotremes...
-
World monkeys. The
South American continent was home to
animals such as
pyrotheres and astrapotheres, as well as
litopterns and notoungulates. Sebecosuchians...
- in length,
being greater than the only
other femur known between the
pyrotheres, the one of Baguatherium,
which reached 558 millimeters. The
shape of...
-
notoungulates (the "southern ungulates"), litopterns, astrapotheres,
pyrotheres and xenungulates. A few non-therian mammals – monotremes, gondwanatheres...
-
which are
present in the
pyrotheres - were
considered as
evidence that this
genus could be an
ancestor of the
advanced pyrotheres as Pyrotherium. Colombitherium...
-
Huallaga River.
Subsequently the
genus was
considered a
basal member of the
Pyrotheres, a
mysterious clade of heavy-shaped
mammals from the
Early Cenozoic of...
