- Wyss, J. J. Flynn, and D. A. Croft. 2018. New
Paleogene Notohippids and
Leontiniids (Toxodontia; Notoungulata; Mammalia) from the
Early Oligocene Tinguiririca...
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paraphyletic Notohippidae.
Leontiniids are
known from the
Deseadan or later, but the
oldest and most
primitive leontiniid, the
Mustersan Martinmiguelia...
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lived during the Late
Oligocene in
South America. This animal, like all
leontiniids, had a
fairly robust body and
strong legs.
Unlike most of its relatives...
- and an even
shorter calcaneus without navicular facet.
Unlike other leontiniids such as Leontinia, Ancylocoelus,
Anayatherium or Colpodon,
Gualta still...
- Like all
leontiniids,
Anayatherium was a
heavy quadrupedal folivore.
Fossils of
Anayatherium are
unusually rare for a
leontiniid ;
leontiniids were usually...
- size of a goat, with a more
robust build. Termastherium,
unlike other leontiniids, was
characterized by
markedly unilaterally hypsodont upper teeth; premolars...
- Flynn, John J.; Croft,
Darin A. (2018), "New
Paleogene notohippids and
leontiniids (Toxodontia; Notoungulata; Mammalia) from the
Early Oligocene Tinguiririca...
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slight differences between the
premolar of the
genus and
those of
later leontiniids. Ameghino, F. (1901). "Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux...
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Leontinia is an
extinct genus of
leontiniid notoungulate.
Fossils have been
found in the
Deseado and
Sarmiento Formations in
Argentina and Trembembé Formation...
- Flynn, John J.; Croft,
Darin A. (2018), "New
Paleogene notohippids and
leontiniids (Toxodontia; Notoungulata; Mammalia) from the
Early Oligocene Tinguiririca...
