Notostylopidae

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Notostylopidae
Temporal range: Late Paleocene-Early Oligocene (Riochican-Tinguirirican)
~58.7–28.4  Ma
Notostylops murinus.jpg
Skull of Notostylops
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order:† Notoungulata
Suborder:† Notioprogonia
Family:† Notostylopidae
Ameghino 1897
Genera

† Boreastylops
† Chilestylops
† Edvardotrouessartia
† Homalostylops
† Notostylops
† Otronia

Notostylopidae is an extinct family comprising five genera of notoungulate mammals known from the Late Paleocene (Riochican) to Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican) of Argentina, Brazil and Chile in South America [1]

References

  1. ↑ McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN   0-231-11013-8