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Mendozahippus

Wikipedia Abstract

Mendozahippus is an extinct genus of notohippid notoungulate which existed in Mendoza, Argentina, during the late Oligocene. Fossils are known from the site of Quebrada Fiera of the Agua de la Piedra Formation and includes a complete skull and two associated metatarsals, two maxillary fragments and five isolated upper teeth. It was first named by Esperanza Cerdeño and Bárbara Vera in 2010 and the type species is Mendozahippus fierensis.
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0