Allalmeia

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Allalmeia
Temporal range: Late Eocene (Divisaderan-Tinguirirican)
~37.2–33.9  Ma
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Right second upper molar
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Oldfieldthomasiidae
Genus: Allalmeia
Rusconi, 1946
Species:
A. atalaensis
Binomial name
Allalmeia atalaensis
Rusconi, 1946 [1]

Allalmeia was a small notoungulate mammal of around 3 kilograms. It lived in Mendoza Province, Argentina (Divisadero Largo Formation) during the Late Eocene. Allalmeia belonged to the Oldfieldthomasiidae family within the suborder Typotheria. [2]

Description

It was a small digitigrade mammal, with brachyodont and lophobunodont teeth, teeth that have a combination of ridges (lophodont dentition) and cones (bunodont dentition). It had a generalized way of locomotion, that means, it could move easily in any terrain, but probably it preferred the safety of the forest trees where it lived. Although being an ungulate, Allalmeia had claws as the oldest mammals. [3]

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References

  1. Rusconi, C. (1946). "Nuevo mamífero fósil de Mendoza". Boletín Paleontológico de Buenos Aires. 20: 1–2.
  2. Allalmeia at Fossilworks.org
  3. Lorente, Malena; Javier Gelfo; Guillermo López (2014). "Postcranial anatomy of the early notoungulate Allalmeia atalaensis from the Eocene of Argentina". Alcheringa. 38 (3): 398–411. Bibcode:2014Alch...38..398L. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.885199. hdl: 11336/33273 . S2CID   128472778.