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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Litopterna |
| Family: | †Macraucheniidae |
| Subfamily: | †Macraucheniinae |
| Genus: | †Huayqueriana Rovereto 1914 |
| Species: | †H. cristata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Huayqueriana cristata Rovereto 1914
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Huayqueriana is an extinct genus of South American litoptern, related to Macrauchenia, and belonging to the same family, Macraucheniidae. It was formerly known as Macrauchenidia latidens, described in 1939 by Cabrera, but redefined as Huayqueriana in 2016 based on the earlier name convention of Rovereto 1914.[1][2] The genus is named after the Huayquerías Formation and the eponymous Huayquerian South American land mammal age defined at the formation.
Classification
[edit]Cladogram based in the phylogenetic analysis published by Schmidt et al., 2014, showing the position of Huayqueriana:[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Forasiepi et al., 2016, p.11
- ^ Cabrera (A.), 1939. "Sobre vertebrados fósiles del Plioceno del Adolfo Alsina". Revista Museo de La Plata, II (n. Serie), Paleont.: 3–35.
- ^ Schmidt, Gabriela I.; Ferrero, Brenda S. (September 2014). "Taxonomic Reinterpretation of Theosodon hystatus Cabrera and Kraglievich, 1931 (Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Family". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1231–1238. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34.1231S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.837393. hdl:11336/18953.
Bibliography
[edit]- Forasiepi, Analía M.; MacPhee, Ross D.E.; Hernández del Pino, Santiago; Schmidt, Gabriela I.; Amson, Eli; Grohé, Camille (2016). "Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the Late Miocene of Argentina: anatomy, systematics and paleobiological implications" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 404: 1–76. doi:10.1206/0003-0090-404.1.1. S2CID 89219979. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
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