Granastrapotherium

Granastrapotherium
Temporal range: Middle Miocene (Laventan)
~13.8–11.8 Ma
Reconstructed skull of G. snorki
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Astrapotheria
Family: Astrapotheriidae
Subfamily: Uruguaytheriinae
Genus: Granastrapotherium
Johnson & Madden, 1997
Species:
G. snorki
Binomial name
Granastrapotherium snorki
Johnson & Madden, 1997

Granastrapotherium is an extinct genus of ungulate mammals, described from remains found in rocks of the Honda Group in the Tatacoa Desert,[1] in the Colombian departments of Huila and Tolima, at the Miocene fossil site La Venta. The only species formally recognized is Granastrapotherium snorki (from Spanish, gran, "great"; Astrapotherium, "lightning beast"; and snorkel, breathing tube, in reference to the trunk). Remains found in Bolivia and Peru,[2] seem to belong to Granastrapotherium or a very similar animal.

  1. ^ Mauricio Pardo Jaramillo. Reporte de un nuevo ejemplar de Granastrapotherium snorki en el Valle Superior del Magdalena, Desierto de la Tatacoa, Huila. Colombia Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine.. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. 34 (131): 253-256, 2010. ISSN 0370-3908.
  2. ^ Antoine, R., Salas-Gismondi, P., Baby, M., Benammi, S., Brusset, D., de Franceschi, N., Espurt, C., Goillot, F., Pujos, J., Tejada and M. Urbina. The Middle Miocene (Laventan) Fitzcarrald fauna, Amazonian Peru. 2007. Proceedings of the European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, nº 8. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, 2007.