Theosodon

Theosodon
Temporal range: Early-Mid Miocene (Colhuehuapian-Laventan)
21.0–11.8 Ma
Theosodon patagonicum skull cast of a specimen from Patagonia, Argentina.
T. garretorum, 1901 skeleton illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Litopterna
Family: Macraucheniidae
Subfamily: Cramaucheniinae
Genus: Theosodon
Ameghino, 1887
Type species
Theosodon lydekkeri
Ameghino, 1887
Species
  • T. arozquetai McGrath et al., 2018
  • T. fontanae Ameghino, 1891
  • T. garretorum Scott, 1910
  • T. gracilis Ameghino, 1891
  • T. karaikensis Ameghino, 1904
  • T. lallemanti Mercerat, 1891
  • T. lydekkeri Ameghino, 1887
  • T. patagonicum (Ameghino, 1891)
Synonyms
  • Pseudocoelosoma[1]
    Ameghino, 1891

Theosodon is an extinct genus of litoptern mammal from the Early to Middle Miocene of South America.

  1. ^ Scott, William B. (1910). The Litopterna of the Santa Cruz Beds. Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896–1899. Princeton: Princeton University Press.