Diadiaphorus

Diadiaphorus
Temporal range: Early-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Huayquerian)
~17.5–6.8 Ma
D. majusculus skull. Collected from Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Litopterna
Family: †Proterotheriidae
Subfamily: †Proterotheriinae
Genus: †Diadiaphorus
Ameghino, 1887
Type species
†Diadiaphorus majusculus
Ameghino, 1887
Species
  • D. caniadensis
  • D. majusculus Ameghino, 1887
  • D. paranensis
  • D. sanctaecrucis
  • D. velox
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
  • Bunodontherium
    Mercerat, 1891
D. majusculus
  • Bunodontherium majusculum
    Mercerat, 1891
  • Diadiaphorus diplinthus
    Ameghino, 1894
  • Diadiaphorus robustus
    Ameghino, 1894
  • Diadiaphorus coelops
    Ameghino, 1904

Diadiaphorus is an extinct genus of litoptern mammal from the Miocene of Argentina (Ituzaingó, Pinturas, Chiquimil and Santa Cruz Formations) and Bolivia (Nazareno Formation), South America.