Proargyrohyrax

Proargyrohyrax
Temporal range: Early-Middle Oligocene (Tinguirirican)
~33.9–31.0 Ma
Dental and mandibular fragment of Proargyrohyrax curanderensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Interatheriidae
Subfamily: Interatheriinae
Genus: Proargyrohyrax
Hitz et al. 2000
Species:
P. curanderensis
Binomial name
Proargyrohyrax curanderensis
Hitz et al. 2000

Proargyrohyrax is an extinct genus of interatheriine notoungulates that lived from the Early to Middle Oligocene in what is now Argentina. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Hitz, Ralph B.; Reguero, Marcelo; Wyss, André R.; Flynn, John J.; History, Field Museum of Natural (2000). "New interatheriines (Interatheriidae, notoungulata) from the Paleogene of central Chile and southern Argentina". Fieldiana. 42: 1–42. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5169. hdl:11336/111062.
  2. ^ Dozo, María Teresa; Ciancio, Martín; Bouza, Pablo José; Martínez, Gastón (2014). "New association of Paleogene Mammals in Eastern of Patagonia (Chubut Province, Argentina): biochronological and paleobiogeographical implications". Andean Geology. 41 (1). doi:10.5027/andgeoV41n1-a09. hdl:11336/27088. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License
  3. ^ Madden, Richard H.; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Vucetich, Maria Guiomar; Kay, Richard F. (2010-06-17). "Rodent-like notoungulates (Typotheria) from Gran Barranca, Chubut Province, Argentina: Phylogeny and systematics". The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change Through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87241-6.