Paramacrauchenia
Extinct genus of litopterns
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Paramacrauchenia is an extinct genus of proterotheriid litopterns from the Early Miocene of what is now Argentina and Chile. Its fossils have been found in the Sarmiento and Santa Cruz Formations of Argentina and Chile.[1][2][3]
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| Left dentary fragment of Paramacrauchenia scamnata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | †Litopterna |
| Family: | †Proterotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Proterotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Paramacrauchenia Bordas, 1939 |
| Type species | |
| †Paramacrauchenia scamnata (Ameghino, 1902) | |
| Other species | |
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†P. inexspectata Soria, 2001 | |
Taxonomy
Paramacrauchenia was originally assigned to the family Macraucheniidae,[4] however, recent studies now consider it a member of the family Proterotheriidae, where it is found to be a derived member, closely related to Lambdaconus.[5][6]
Below is a phylogenetic tree of the Proterotheriidae, based on the work of McGrath et al. 2020.[5]
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