Eopachyrucos

Eopachyrucos
Temporal range: Middle Eocene-Late Oligocene (Mustersan-Deseadan)
~48–23.0 Ma
Mandible of Eopachyrucos pliciformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Interatheriidae
Subfamily: †Interatheriinae
Genus: †Eopachyrucos
Ameghino 1901
Type species
†Eopachyrucos pliciformis
Ameghino, 1901
Species
  • E. pliciferus Ameghino 1901
  • E. pliciformis Ameghino 1894
  • E. ranchoverdensis Reguero et al. 2003
Synonyms
  • Eupachyrucos Ameghino 1906

Eopachyrucos is an extinct genus of interatheriid notoungulates that lived from the Middle Eocene to the Late Oligocene of Argentina and Uruguay.[1] Fossils of this genus have been found in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina and the Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.[2][3]

  1. ^ Hitz, Ralph B.; Reguero, Marcelo; Wyss, André R.; Flynn, John J. (2000). "New interatheriines (Interatheriidae, notoungulata) from the Paleogene of central Chile and southern Argentina". Fieldiana. 42: 1–42. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5169. hdl:11336/111062.
  2. ^ Dozo, María Teresa; Ciancio, Martín; Bouza, Pablo José; Martínez, Gastón (2014). "New association of Paleogene Mammals in Eastern of Patagonia (Chubut Province, Argentina): biochronological and paleobiogeographical implications". Andean Geology. 41 (1). doi:10.5027/andgeoV41n1-a09. hdl:11336/27088.
  3. ^ Reguero, Marcelo A.; Ubilla, Martín; Perea, Daniel (2003-06-17). "A new species of Eopachyrucos (Mammalia, Notoungulata, Interatheriidae) from the Late Oligocene of Uruguay". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (2): 445–457. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)023[0445:ANSOEM]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 85678430.