Sudamerica

This article is about a genus of Paleogene mammals. For the continent, see South America.

Sudamerica
Temporal range: Mid Paleocene-Early Eocene (Peligran-Casamayoran)
~61.7–48.6 Ma
Mandible with first and second molars
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Family: †Sudamericidae
Genus: †Sudamerica
Scillato-Yané & Pascual, 1984
Species:
†S. ameghinoi
Binomial name
†Sudamerica ameghinoi
Location of Sudamerica discovery: Punta Peligro, Argentina

Sudamerica, literally "South America" in Spanish, is a genus of mammal from the extinct suborder Gondwanatheria that lived in Patagonia, Argentina (Salamanca Formation) and Antarctica (La Meseta Formation) from the Middle Paleocene (Peligran), just after the end of the "Age of Dinosaurs", to the Early Eocene (Casamayoran).[1]

  1. ^ Sudamerica at Fossilworks.org