Jump to content

Hypsitherium

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hypsitherium
Temporal range: Pliocene (Chapadmalalan)
~4.0–3.0 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Mesotheriidae
Genus: Hypsitherium
Anaya & MacFadden 1995
Species:
H. bolivianum
Binomial name
Hypsitherium bolivianum
Anaya & MacFadden 1995

Hypsitherium is an extinct genus of Mesotheriidae that lived 4.0 to 3 million years ago. It is known from the Miocene to Pliocene Inchasi fossil locality in Bolivia. Hypsitherium was a scansorial herbivore, and its name translates to "high beast."[1][2]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Hypsitherium". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Anaya, Federico; MacFadden, Bruce J. (December 12, 1995). "Pliocene mammals from Inchasi, Bolivia: The endemic fauna just before the Great American Interchange" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 39 (9): 87–140. doi:10.58782/flmnh.jxpv7528. Retrieved 2016-09-24.

Further reading

[edit]
  • B. J. MacFadden, F. Anaya, and J. Argollo. 1993. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Inchasi: a Pliocene mammal-bearing locality from the Bolivian Andes deposited just before the Great American Interchange. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 114(2-3):229-241