Leontiniidae
Leontiniidae Temporal range: Middle Eocene–Middle Miocene | |
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Leontinia gaudryi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Suborder: | †Toxodonta |
Family: | †Leontiniidae Ameghino, 1895 |
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Leontiniidae is an extinct family comprising eleven genera of notoungulate mammals known from the middle Eocene through middle Miocene of South America (McKenna and Bell, 1997).
References
- ↑ Bruce J. Shockey. New leontinids (Class Mammalia, order Notoungulata, family Leontiniidae) from the Salla beds of Bolivia (Deseadan, Late Oligocene). Bull. Fla. Mus. Nat. Hist. (2005) 45(4): 249-260
- ↑ Esperanza Cerdeño and Bárbara Vera (2014). "A new Leontiniidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene beds of Mendoza Province, Argentina". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.982727.
- 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
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