Scaglia kraglievichorum Temporal range: Mid-Late Eocene (Casamayoran-Divisaderan) ~48.6–37.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Astrapotheria |
Family: | †Astrapotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Astrapotheriinae |
Genus: | †Scaglia Simpson, 1957 |
Species: | †S. kraglievichorum |
Binomial name | |
†Scaglia kraglievichorum Simpson, 1957 |
Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran to Divisaderan in the SALMA classification).
Etymology
The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia, and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich.
Description
Its type specimen, recovered from the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina, is MMCNT-MdP 207. Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.
Phylogeny
Cladogram according to Bond et al., 2011, standing out the phylogenetic position of Scaglia:
Astrapotheria |
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References
- Scaglia in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved August 2017
- Quintana 2008, pp. 4–5
- Scaglia kraglievichorum in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
- Rose 2006, p. 236
- Bond, Mariano; Kramarz, Alejandro; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; Reguero, Marcelo (2011). "A new astrapothere (Mammalia, Meridiungulata) from La Meseta Formation, Seymour (Marambio) Island, and a reassessment of previous records of Antarctic astrapotheres" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3718): 16. doi:10.1206/3718.2. hdl:11336/98139. S2CID 58908785.
Bibliography
- Quintana, Carlos A. (2008). Los Fósiles de Mar del Plata: Un viaje al pasado de nuestra región. Buenos Aires: Libros del Espinillo. ISBN 9781435737358. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
- Rose, Kenneth David (2006). The beginning of the age of mammals. Baltimore: JHU Press. ISBN 0801884721.
Further reading
- Carroll, Robert Lynn (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 9780716718222. OCLC 14967288.
- Simpson, George Gaylord (1957). "A new Casamayoran astrapothere". Revista del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales y Tradicional de Mar del Plata. 1 (3): 11–18. OCLC 81633287.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Scaglia | |
Scaglia kraglievichorum |
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