Scaglia kraglievichorum
Extinct genus of mammals
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Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran to Divisaderan in the SALMA classification).[1] The genus is monotypic, with its only known species (and thus its type species) being Scaglia kraglievichorum.
| Scaglia kraglievichorum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
Etymology
The genus was named after Argentine naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia (1915–1989),[2] and the type species after Argentine palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich (1886–1932).
Description
Its type specimen, recovered from the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina, is MMCNT-MdP 207.[3] Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.[4]
