- the most
diverse and last
surviving families. The body
forms of many
litopterns,
notably in the limb and
skull structure, are
broadly similar to those...
-
similar to
equivalent South American faunas; with marsupials, xenarthrans,
litoptern, and
astrapotherian ungulates, as well as
gondwanatheres and possibly...
-
Theosodon is an
extinct genus of
litoptern mammal from the
Early to
Middle Miocene of
South America.
Theosodon was long-legged with a long neck resembling...
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Micrauchenia is an
extinct genus of
macraucheniine litoptern that
lived during the Late
Miocene of what is now Chile.
Fossils of this
genus have been...
-
contain the
somewhat tapir-like
pyrotheres and astrapotheres, the
mesaxonic litopterns and the
diverse notoungulates. As a whole,
meridiungulates were said to...
-
sequence analysis suggests that
notoungulates are
closely related to
litopterns,
another group of
South American ungulates, and
their closest living relatives...
-
proboscideans were different, and
native ungulates such as
toxodonts and
litopterns were
completely unfamiliar, yet S. po****tor
thrived as well
there as...
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Thoatherium (meaning "active swift-beast") is an
extinct genus of
litoptern mammals from the
Early Miocene of Argentina.
Fossils of the
genus have been...
- and the
litopterns, were the only
groups to
persist beyond the mid Miocene. Only a few (mostly large)
species of
notoungulates and
litopterns survived...
- Gelfo;
Alejandro Kramarz (2014). "Ancient
protein sequencing Resolves litoptern and
notoungulate superordinal affinities". The
History of Life: A View...
