Deuterotherium
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| Deuterotherium | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Notohippidae |
| Genus: | †Deuterotherium Ameghino 1895 |
| Species: | †D. distichum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Deuterotherium distichum Ameghino 1895 | |
Deuterotherium is an extinct genus of South American native ungulates, which lived during the Deseadan age of the Oligocene in what is now Argentina. Its type species is Deuterotherium distichum.[1] It was named by Florentino Ameghino in 1895.[1] The holotype of Deuterotherium distichum is a calcaneum.[2] It was formerly identified as a proterotheriid litoptern.[1] In 1999, Shockey argued Deuterotherium was certainly not a litoptern and interpreted it as a notohippid notoungulate.[2] In research by Soria posthumously[2] published in 2001, Soria considered Deuterotherium a nomen dubium.[3]
