Paranauchenia

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Paraunauchenia
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Litopterna
Family: Macraucheniidae
Genus: Paranauchenia
Species: P. denticulata
Binomial name
Paranauchenia denticulata
Owen, 1838

Paranauchenia is an extinct genus of the South American litopterns, related to Macrauchenia, belonging to the same family, Macraucheniidae, and is known only from fossil finds in South America. It possessed three toes and long limbs. The species Paranauchenia denticulata lived in the Miocene epoch in Argentina.

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