Huilatherium

Huilatherium
Temporal range: Mid Miocene (Colloncuran-Laventan)
~15.9–11.8 Ma
Life reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Leontiniidae
Genus: Huilatherium
Villarroel & Guerrero, 1985
Species:
H. pluriplicatum
Binomial name
Huilatherium pluriplicatum
Villarroel & Guerrero, 1985
Synonyms
  • Laventatherium hylei Colwell, 1965 (thesis)[1]

Huilatherium is an extinct genus of leontiniid, a group of hoofed mammals belonging to the order Notoungulata, that comprises other South American ungulate families that evolved in parallel with some mammals of the Northern hemisphere. The leontiinids were a family of herbivorous species comprising medium to large browsers,[2] with relatively short skulls and robust limbs, somewhat similar to their relatives, the best known toxodontids.

  1. ^ Colwell, Jane (1965). A new notoungulate of the family Leontiniidae of the Miocene of Colombia. Master's thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
  2. ^ Bond, M. y López, G.M. 1995. Los Mamíferos de la Formación Casa Grande (Eoceno) de la Provincia de Jujuy, Argentina. Ameghiniana 32: 301-309.