Cramauchenia

Cramauchenia
Temporal range: 23.0–15.9 Ma
Skull of Cramauchenia insolita in the Field Museum of Natural History.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Litopterna
Family: Macraucheniidae
Genus: Cramauchenia
Ameghino, 1902
Species
  • C. insolita
  • C. normalis

Cramauchenia is a member of the litoptern order of South American mammals. Cramauchenia was named by Florentino Ameghino. The name has no literal translation. Instead, it is an anagram of the name of a related genus Macrauchenia.