Prohegetotherium

Prohegetotherium; Temporal range: Late Oligocene (Deseadan); ~29–27 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Notoungulata
Suborder:	†Hegetotheria
Family:	†Hegetotheriidae
Genus:	†Prohegetotherium; Ameghino 1897
Species
	P. sculptum Ameghino 1897 (type);

Prohegetotherium is an extinct genus of mammals from the Late Oligocene (Deseadan in the SALMA classification) of the Agua de la Piedra, Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Salla Formation of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.[1]

Taxonomy

Prohegetotherium comprises three species, P. sculptum, P. schiaffinoi, and P. malalhuense.[1] Although Prohegetotherium shumwayi and P. crassus have long been synonymized with P. sculptum, Kramarz and Bond (2017) restricted P. sculptum to the holotype, rejecting the synonymy.[2]

References

Prohegetotherium at Fossilworks.org
A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2017. Systematics and stratigraphical range of the hegetotheriids Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus and Prohegetotherium sculptum (Mammalia: Notoungulata). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(12):1027-1036

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[2] A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2017. Systematics and stratigraphical range of the hegetotheriids Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus and Prohegetotherium sculptum (Mammalia: Notoungulata). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(12):1027-1036