Chapalmalania

Chapalmalania
Temporal range: Late Miocene - Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene (Montehermosan-Uquian)
~6.8–1.8 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Procyonidae
Genus: Chapalmalania
Ameghino, 1908
Species
  • C. altaefrontis
  • C. orthognatha

Chapalmalania is an extinct genus of procyonid from the Late Miocene or Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene (Montehermosan to Uquian) of Argentina (Andalhualá Formation),[1] Venezuela (San Gregorio Formation, Venezuela),[2] and Colombia (Ware Formation, Cocinetas Basin, La Guajira).[3][4]

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  2. ^ Carrillo-Briceño, Jorge D.; Sánchez, Rodolfo; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Carrillo, Juan D.; Delfino, Massimo; Georgalis, Georgios L.; Kerber, Leonardo; Ruiz-Ramoni, Damián; Birindelli, José L. O.; Cadena, A, Edwin-Alberto; Rincón, ldo F.; Chavez-Hoffmeister, Martin; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Carvalho, Mónica R.; Trejos-Tamayo, Raúl; Vallejo, Felipe; Jaramillo, Carlos; Jones, Douglas S.; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (2021). "A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 140 (9): 9. Bibcode:2021SwJP..140....9C. doi:10.1186/s13358-020-00216-6. PMC 8550326. PMID 34721281.
  3. ^ Forasiepi, Analia M.; Soibelzon, Leopoldo H.; Gomez, Catalina Suarez; Sánchez, Rodolfo; Quiroz, Luis I.; Jaramillo, Carlos; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R. (17 September 2014). "Carnivorans at the Great American Biotic Interchange: new discoveries from the northern neotropics" (PDF). Naturwissenschaften. 101 (11): 965–974. Bibcode:2014NW....101..965F. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1237-4. hdl:11336/32009. PMID 25228347. S2CID 14870844.
  4. ^ Chapalmalania at Fossilworks.org