Allalmeia
| Allalmeia Temporal range: Early Eocene 55–40 Ma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Suborder: | †Typotheria |
| Type species | |
| †Allalmeia atalaensis (Rusconi, 1946)[1] | |
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Allalmeia was a small notoungulate of around 3 kilograms. It lived in Mendoza province, Argentina during the early Eocene. It was a digitigrade mammal, with brachyodont and lophobunodont teeth. 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.[2]
References
- ↑ Rusconi, C. (1946). "Nuevo mamífero fósil de Mendoza". Boletín Paleontológico de Buenos Aires 20: 1–2.
- ↑ Lorente, Malena; Javier Gelfo; Guillermo López (2014). "Postcranial anatomy of the early notoungulate Allalmeia atalaensis from the Eocene of Argentina". Alcheringa. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.885199.
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