Xenorhinotherium

Xenorhinotherium
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene (Ensenadan-Lujanian)
~0.126–0.011 Ma
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Mounted skeleton of X. bahiense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Litopterna
Family: †Macraucheniidae
Subfamily: †Macraucheniinae
Genus: †Xenorhinotherium
Cartelle & Lessa, 1988
Species:
†X. bahiense
Binomial name
†Xenorhinotherium bahiense
Cartelle & Lessa, 1988
Map showing the distribution of Macrauchenia in red, and Xenorhinotherium in yellow, inferred from fossil finds

Xenorhinotherium is an extinct genus of macraucheniine macraucheniids, native to northern South America during the Pleistocene epoch, closely related to Macrauchenia of Patagonia. The type species is X. bahiense.[1]

  1. ^ Xenorhinotherium at Fossilworks.org