Micrauchenia

Micrauchenia
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Huayquerian)
~8–6 Ma
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Skeletal reconstruction of Micrauchenia saladensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Litopterna
Family: †Macraucheniidae
Subfamily: †Macraucheniinae
Genus: †Micrauchenia
Püschel et al. 2023
Species:
†M. saladensis
Binomial name
†Micrauchenia saladensis
Püschel et al. 2023

Micrauchenia is an extinct genus of macraucheniine litoptern that lived during the Late Miocene of what is now Chile. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Bahía Inglesa Formation in Chile.[1]

  1. ^ Püschel, Hans P.; Alarcón-Muñoz, Jhonatan; Soto-Acuña, Sergio; Ugalde, Raúl; Shelley, Sarah L.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2023-02-25). "Anatomy and phylogeny of a new small macraucheniid (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Bahía Inglesa Formation (late Miocene), Atacama Region, Northern Chile". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 30 (2): 415–460. doi:10.1007/s10914-022-09646-0. ISSN 1573-7055. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.