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Ethegotherium Temporal range: Middle-Late Miocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Hegetotheriidae |
Genus: | †Ethegotherium Minoprio, 1947 |
Species: | †E. carettei
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Binomial name | |
†Ethegotherium carettei Minoprio, 1947
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Ethegotherium is an extinct genus of Notoungulates, belonging to the suborder Typotheria. It lived from the Lower to the Middle Miocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America. It might be a synonym of the genus Prohegetotherium.