Lambdaconus
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Extinct genus of litopterns
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Litopterna |
| Family: | †Proterotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Proterotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Lambdaconus Ameghino, 1897 |
| Type species | |
| †Lambdaconus suinus Ameghino, 1897
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Genus synonymy
L. lacerum
L. inaqeuifacies
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Lambdaconus is a genus of proterotheriid from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene of Argentina. The type species is L. suinus, named in 1897 by Ameghino, with referred species including L. lacerum, named as Proterotherium lacerum in 1902 by Ameghino, and L. inaqeuifacies.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ Kramarz, A.G.; Bond, M. (2005). "Los Litopterna (Mammalia) de la Formación Pinturas, Mioceno Temprano-Medio de Patagonia". Ameghiniana. 42 (3): 611–625.
Categories:
- Proterotheriids
- Oligocene mammals of South America
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Paleogene Argentina
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Colhuehuapian
- Deseadan
- Fossil taxa described in 1897
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Golfo San Jorge Basin
- Sarmiento Formation