Campanorco

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Campanorco
Fossil range: early Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Suborder: Typotheria
Family: Campanorcidae
Bond, Vucetich, & Pascual, 1984
Genus: Campanorco
Bond, Vucetich, & Pascual, 1984
Species: C. inauguralis
Binomial name
Campanorco inauguralis
Bond, Vucetich, & Pascual, 1984

Campanorco is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammal from the early Eocene of South America and the only member of the family Campanorcidae (McKenna and Bell, 1997).

[edit] References

  • McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
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