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Extinct family of mammals
Leontiniidae
Leontinia gaudryi
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†
Notoungulata
Clade :
†
Eutoxodontia
Family:
†
Leontiniidae
Ameghino , 1895
Genera
[3]
Anayatherium Shockey, 2005
[1]
Ancylocoelus Ameghino, 1895
Colpodon Burmeister, 1885
Coquenia Deraco et al. , 2008
Elmerriggsia Shockey et al. , 2012
Gualta Cerdeño & Vera, 2015
[2]
Henricofilholia Ameghino, 1901
Huilatherium Villarroel & Guerrero Diaz, 1985
Leontinia Ameghino, 1895
Martinmiguelia Bond & López, 1995
Purperia Paula Couto, 1982
Pyralophodon Ameghino, 1904
Rodiotherium
Scaphops
Scarrittia Simpson, 1934
Stenogenium
Taubatherium Soria & Alvarenga, 1989
Termastherium Wyss et al. , 2018
Leontiniidae is an
extinct
family comprising eighteen
genera of
notoungulate
mammals known from the
Middle Eocene (
Mustersan ) to
Late Miocene (
Huayquerian ) of
South America .
M. V. Deraco, J. E. Powell, and G. Lopez. 2008.
Primer leontínido (Mammalia, Notoungulata) de la Formación Lumbrera (Subgrupo Santa Bárbara, Grupo Salta-Paleógeno) del noroeste argentino. Ameghiniana 45(1):83–91
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
B. J. Shockey, J. J. Flynn, D. A. Croft, P. Gans, and A. R. Wyss. 2012.
New leontiniid Notoungulata (Mammalia) from Chile and Argentina: comparative anatomy, character analysis, and phylogenetic hypotheses. American Museum Novitates 3737:1–64
A. R. Wyss, J. J. Flynn, and D. A. Croft. 2018.
New Paleogene Notohippids and Leontiniids (Toxodontia; Notoungulata; Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna of the Andean Main Range, Central Chile. American Museum Novitates 3903:1–42