Plesiotypotherium

Plesiotypotherium
Temporal range: Middle-Late Miocene
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Skull of Plesiotypotherium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Family: †Mesotheriidae
Subfamily: †Mesotheriinae
Genus: †Plesiotypotherium
Villarroel, 1974
Type species
†Plesiotypotherium achirense
Villarroel, 1974
Species
  • P. achirense (Villarroel, 1974
  • P. casirense (Cerdeño et al, 2012)
  • P. majus (Villarroel, 1974)
  • P. minus (Croft, 2007)

Plesiotypotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate, belonging to the suborder Typotheria. It lived from the Middle to the Late Miocene, and its fossilised remains were discovered in South America.

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