Biology:Neodolodus

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Short description: Extinct genus of litopterns

Neodolodus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene (Laventan)
~13.8–11.8 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Litopterna
Family: Proterotheriidae
Genus: Neodolodus
Hoffstetter & Soria, 1986
Species:
N. colombianus
Binomial name
Neodolodus colombianus
Hoffstetter & Soria, 1986
Synonyms[1]
  • Prothoatherium colombianus Cifelli & Guerrero Diaz, 1989
  • Carrillo et al., 2018 Lambdaconus colombianus

Neodolodus is a genus of extinct litoptern from the late middle Miocene of southern Colombia. It was named in 1986 by Hoffstetter and Soria, for the species Neodolodus colombianus from the Castilletes Formation and the La Victoria and Villavieja Formations of the Honda Group. The type species N. colombianus is known from a right mandibular ramus, teeth, and part of the fore- and hindlimbs. Neodolodus has been classified as a species of Prothoatherium or Lambdaconus, but was recognized as a distinct genus by McGrath and colleagues in 2020. The taxon was recovered in a phylogenetic analysis as the sister taxon of Protheosodon, between other proterotheriid genera like Picturotherium and Anisolophus.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 McGrath, A.J.; Anaya, F.; Croft, D.A. (2020). "New proterotheriids (Litopterna, Mammalia) from the middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia, and trends in diversity and body size of proterotheriid and macraucheniid litopterns". Ameghiniana 57 (2): 159–188. doi:10.5710/AMGH.03.03.2020.3268. 


Wikidata ☰ Q97183319 entry