Scaglia kraglievichorum explained

Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran to Divisaderan in the SALMA classification).^[1]

Etymology

The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia, and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich.

Description

Its type specimen, recovered from the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina, is MMCNT-MdP 207.^[2] Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.

Phylogeny

Cladogram according to Bond et al., 2011, standing out the phylogenetic position of Scaglia:^[3]

References

Bibliography

• Book: Quintana, Carlos A. . Los Fósiles de Mar del Plata: Un viaje al pasado de nuestra región . 2008 . Libros del Espinillo . Buenos Aires . March 10, 2013 . 9781435737358 .
• Book: Rose, Kenneth David . The beginning of the age of mammals . 2006 . JHU Press . Baltimore . 0801884721 .

Further reading

• Book: Carroll, Robert Lynn . Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution . 1988 . W. H. Freeman and Company . New York . 9780716718222 . 14967288 .
• Simpson . George Gaylord . A new Casamayoran astrapothere . 1957 . Revista del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales y Tradicional de Mar del Plata . 1 . 3 . 11–18 . 81633287 .

Notes and References

1. . Retrieved August 2017
2. . Retrieved March 10, 2013.
3. Bond . Mariano . Kramarz . Alejandro . MacPhee . Ross D. E. . Reguero . Marcelo . A new astrapothere (Mammalia, Meridiungulata) from La Meseta Formation, Seymour (Marambio) Island, and a reassessment of previous records of Antarctic astrapotheres . 2011 . American Museum Novitates . 3718 . 16 . 10.1206/3718.2 . 11336/98139 . 58908785 .