Hegetotheria

Hegetotheria[1]
Temporal range: Late Paleocene–Early Pleistocene
Propachyrucos ameghinorum fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Suborder: Hegetotheria
Simpson, 1945
Families

Hegetotheria is a suborder of the extinct mammalian order Notoungulata and includes two families, Archaeohyracidae and Hegetotheriidae. Cifelli (1993) indicated that the suborder Typotheria would be paraphyletic if it excluded members of Hegetotheria and he advocated inclusion of the hegetothere families in Typotheria.

Notes

  1. McKenna & Bell, 1997, pp. 465-466.

References

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