Cochilius

Cochilius
Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Early Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian)
~29.0–16.3 Ma
Skull of Cochilius volvens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Interatheriidae
Subfamily: †Interatheriinae
Genus: †Cochilius
Ameghino, 1902
Type species
†Cochilius volvens
Ameghino, 1902
Other species
  • †C. brevirostris Bordas, 1939
  • †C. columnifer Ameghino, 1902
  • †C. fumensis Simpson, 1932
  • †C. minor Bordas, 1939
  • †C. pendens Ameghino, 1902

Cochilius is an extinct genus of interatheriid notoungulate that lived between the Late Oligocene and the lower Miocene in what is now Argentina.