Notohippidae

Notohippidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America. Notohippids are known from the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.[1]

Notohippidae
Temporal range: Early Eocene–Late Oligocene
Rhynchippus equinus with Pyrotherium romeroi
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Notohippidae

Ameghino, 1894
Subfamilies and Genera

Notohippinae

  • Argyrohippus
  • Colpodon
  • Nesohippus
  • Notohippus
  • Perhippidion
  • Purperia
  • Stilhippus

Rhynchippinae

  • Eomorphippus
  • Eurygenium
  • Morphippus
  • Pampahippus
  • Plexotemnus
  • Puelia
  • Rhynchippus

incertae sedis

  • Acoelohyrax
  • Edvardocopeia
  • Trimerostephanos

References

  1. 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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