Deuterotherium
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Notohippidae |
Genus: | †Deuterotherium Ameghino 1895 |
Species: |
†D. distichum
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†Deuterotherium distichum Ameghino 1895 |
Deuterotherium is an extinct genusofSouth American native ungulates, which lived during the Deseadan age of the Oligocene in what is now Argentina. Its type species is Deuterotherium distichum.[1] It was named by Florentino Ameghino in 1895.[1] The holotype of Deuterotherium distichum is a calcaneum.[2] It was formerly identified as a proterotheriid litoptern.[1] In 1999, Shockey argued Deuterotherium was certainly not a litoptern and interpreted it as a notohippid notoungulate.[2] In research by Soria posthumously[2] published in 2001, Soria considered Deuterotheriumanomen dubium.[3]
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