Adinotherium

Adinotherium[1]
Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Huayquerian)
~17.5–6.8 Ma
A. ferum skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Toxodontidae
Subfamily: †Nesodontinae
Genus: †Adinotherium
Ameghino 1887
Type species
†Adinotherium ovinum
Species
  • A. corriguenense Ameghino 1907
  • A. ferum Ameghino 1887
  • A. haplodontoides Ameghino 1891
  • A. karaikense
  • A. nitidum Ameghino 1887
  • A. ovinum (Owen 1846)
  • A. robustum Ameghino 1891
  • A. splendidum
Synonyms

Adinotherium (meaning "not terrible beast")[2] is an extinct genus of toxodontid, large bodied hoofed ungulates which inhabited South America during the Middle to Late Miocene, from 17.5 to 6.8 Ma and existed for approximately 10.7 million years, Santacrucian to Huayquerian in the South American land mammal ages (SALMA). Fossils of Adinotherium have been found in the Santa Cruz and Ituzaingó Formations of Argentina and the Chucal and Río Frías Formations of Chile.[3]

  1. ^ range and species from Croft et al. (2004), p. 8; synonyms from McKenna and Bell (1997), p. 459.
  2. ^ Palmer (1904) p. 80.
  3. ^ Adinotherium at Fossilworks.org