Prohegetotherium Explained

Prohegetotherium is an extinct genus of hegetotheriid notoungulates from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian in the SALMA classification) of the Agua de la Piedra,^[1] Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Petaca and Salla Formations of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.^{[2] [3]}

Taxonomy

Prohegetotherium comprises three species, P. sculptum, P. schiaffinoi, and P. malalhuense.^[2] 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.^[4]

See also

• Ethegotherium

Notes and References

1. Hernández Del Pino . Santiago . Seoane . Federico . Cerdeño . Esperanza . 2022 . New craniodental information and taxonomic decisions of the typotherians (Notoungulata) from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, central-western Argentina . . en . 67 . 10.4202/app.00974.2022 . 0567-7920. free. 11336/202725 . free .
2. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43445 Prohegetotherium
3. Reguero . Marcelo Alfredo . Tineo . David Eric . Bona . Paula . Pérez . Leandro Martín . Vergani . Gustavo Dardo . Ruiz . Gloria González . Poiré . Daniel Gustavo . 2021-05-14 . A singular Hegetotheriinae (Notoungulata, Typotheria) from the late Oligocene-Early Miocene of the Subandean Region of Bolivia . Brazilian Journal of Geology . en . 51 . 2 . 10.1590/2317-4889202120200067 . 2317-4889. free.
4. 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