- cusp)
molar teeth,
which is
largely unique to
litopterns among South American native ungulates.
Litopterns of the mid-late
Cenozoic had hinge-like limb...
- and the
litopterns, were the only
groups to
persist beyond the mid Miocene. Only a few (mostly large)
species of
notoungulates and
litopterns survived...
- 60
million years ago.
Litopterns generally have body
forms similar to
those of
living ungulates. The
relationships of
litopterns (as well as
other S****)...
- The
research history of
Anoplotherium spans back to 1804 when
Georges Cuvier first described the
fossils of this
extinct artiodactyl and
named the genus...
-
proboscideans were different, and
native ungulates such as
toxodonts and
litopterns were
completely unfamiliar, yet S. po****tor
thrived as well
there as...
-
contain the
somewhat tapir-like
pyrotheres and astrapotheres, the
mesaxonic litopterns and the
diverse notoungulates. As a whole,
meridiungulates were said to...
-
similar to
equivalent South American faunas; with marsupials, xenarthrans,
litoptern, and
astrapotherian ungulates, as well as
gondwanatheres and possibly...
-
sequence analysis suggests that
notoungulates are
closely related to
litopterns,
another group of
South American ungulates, and
their closest living relatives...
- The Ituzaingó
Formation (Spanish: Formación Ituzaingó), in
older literature also
described as
Entre Ríos or
Entrerriana Formation, is an
extensive geological...
-
Interatheriidae [small notoungulates] and even
Proterotheriidae [deer-sized
litopterns], with all
their bones crushed and corroded,
piled on with no apparent...
