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- Astrapotheria is an extinct order of South American and Antarctic hoofed mammals that existed from the late Paleocene to the Middle Miocene, 59 to 11.8...
- South American faunas; with marsupials, xenarthrans, litoptern, and astrapotherian ungulates, as well as gondwanatheres and possibly meridiolestidans....
- Astrapotherium ("lightning beast") is an extinct genus of large astrapotherian ungulate native to South America during the early-middle Miocene. It is...
- of mammals from the Early Eocene (late Ypresian age). It is a basal astrapotherian which lived in what is now Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, at that...
- (Colhuehuapian SALMA). The genus includes some of the largest and smallest known astrapotherian, but at present no generally recognized description can adequately characterize...
- Megatherium attained similarly large dimensions. Some of the largest known astrapotherians weighed about 3–4 t (3.3–4.4 short tons), including the genus Granastrapotherium...
-  Peru An astrapotherian Xenastrapotherium aequatorialis Valid Johnson Madden 1997 Early Miocene Biblián Formation  Ecuador An astrapotherian, a species...
- It follows the Itaboraian and precedes the Mustersan age. Several astrapotherian mammals are known from this period, such as Antarctodon and Albertogaudrya...
- Comahuetherium is an extinct genus of astrapotherian mammal from the Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian age). It is a basal astrapotheriid which lived in what...
- 98 million years ago.[clarification needed] The most derived of the astrapotherians, they were also the largest and most specialized mammals in the Tertiary...