Piauhytherium

Piauhytherium
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene (Lujanian)
~0.010 Ma
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Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Toxodontidae
Subfamily: †Toxodontinae
Genus: †Piauhytherium
Guérin & Faure 2013
Species:
†P. capivarae
Binomial name
†Piauhytherium capivarae
Guérin & Faure 2013

Piauhytherium is an extinct genus of herbivorous notoungulate mammal of the family Toxodontidae. It lived during the Late Pleistocene; fossils have been found in Brazil. The only known species is Piauhytherium capivarae.[1]

  1. ^ Guérin, Claude, and Martine Faure. "Un nouveau Toxodontidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) du Pléistocène supérieur du Nordeste du Brésil." Geodiversitas 35.1 (2013): 155-205.