Hegetotherium

Hegetotherium
Temporal range: Early-Middle Miocene (Colhuehuapian-Colloncuran)
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Skull of Hegetotherium mirabile
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Hegetotheriidae
Subfamily: Hegetotheriinae
Genus: Hegetotherium
Ameghino 1887
Species
  • H. mirabile Ameghino 1887 (type)
  • H. cerdasensis Croft et al. 2016

Hegetotherium is an extinct genus of mammals from the Early to Middle Miocene (Colhuehuapian-Colloncuran in the SALMA classification) of South America. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Cerro Bandera, Cerro Boleadoras, Chichinales, Collón Curá, Santa Cruz and Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Nazareno Formation of Bolivia, and the Galera and Río Frías Formations of Chile.

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