Scaglia (genus)
| Scaglia Temporal range: Late Eocene–Middle Miocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Theria |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| Superorder: | †Meridiungulata |
| Order: | †Astrapotheria |
| Family: | †Astrapotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Scaglia Simpson 1957 |
| Species | |
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†Scaglia kraglievichorum | |
Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran SALMA).[1] The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia,[2] and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich. Its type specimen is MMCNT-MdP 207.[3]
Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Scaglia in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
- ↑ Quintana 2008, pp. 4–5
- ↑ Scaglia kraglievichorum in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
- ↑ Rose 2006, p. 236
References
- Carroll, Robert Lynn (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 9780716718222. OCLC 14967288.
- Quintana, Carlos A. (2008). Los Fósiles de Mar del Plata: Un viaje al pasado de nuestra región. Buenos Aires: Libros del Espinillo. ISBN 9781435737358. Retrieved March 2013.
- Rose, Kenneth David (2006). The beginning of the age of mammals. Baltimore: JHU Press. ISBN 0801884721.
- Simpson, George Gaylord (1957). "A new Casamayoran astrapothere". Revista del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales y Tradicional de Mar del Plata 1 (3): 11–18. OCLC 81633287.
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