Homalodotherium | |
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Mounted skeleton of H. cunninghami in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Homalodotheriidae |
Genus: | †Homalodotherium Huxley, 1870 |
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Homalodotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America. Fossils of Homalodotherium have been found in the Middle Miocene (Friasian in the SALMA classification) Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina and the Río Frías Formation of Chile.[2]