Homalodotherium

Homalodotherium; Temporal range: Early-Mid Miocene (Friasian); ~
	Mounted skeleton of H. cunninghami in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Notoungulata
Family:	†Homalodotheriidae
Genus:	†Homalodotherium; Huxley, 1870
Species
	Homalodotherium canepai Bordas, 1941; Homalodotherium crassum Ameghino, 1894; Homalodotherium cunninghami Flower, 1884; Homalodotherium excursum Ameghino, 1894; Homalodotherium segoviae Ameghino, 1891 ;
Synonyms
	Homalodon Burmeister 1891; Homalodontherium Trouessart 1898; Homalodontotherium Flower 1874;

Homalodotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America. Fossils of Homalodotherium have been found in the Middle Miocene (Friasian in the SALMA classification) Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina and the Río Frías Formation of Chile.

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