Prohegetotherium

Prohegetotherium Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Early Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian) ~29–16.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Prohegetotherium fossilized lower mandibles.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Notoungulata
Family:	†Hegetotheriidae
Subfamily:	†Hegetotheriinae
Genus:	†Prohegetotherium Ameghino 1897
Species
P. sculptum Ameghino 1897 (type)
Synonyms
Ethegotherium? Minoprio, 1947

Prohegetotherium is an extinct genus of hegetotheriid notoungulates from the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene (Deseadan-Santacrucian in the SALMA classification) of the Agua de la Piedra,[1] Mariño & Sarmiento Formations of Argentina, the Petaca and Salla Formations of Bolivia, and Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Prohegetotherium comprises three species, P. sculptum, P. schiaffinoi, and P. malalhuense.[2] Although Prohegetotherium shumwayi and P. crassus have long been synonymized with P. sculptum, Kramarz and Bond (2017) restricted P. sculptum to the holotype, rejecting the synonymy.[4]

See also

• Ethegotherium

References

1. Hernández Del Pino, Santiago; Seoane, Federico; Cerdeño, Esperanza (2022). "New craniodental information and taxonomic decisions of the typotherians (Notoungulata) from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, central-western Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 67. doi:10.4202/app.00974.2022. hdl:11336/202725. ISSN 0567-7920.
2. Prohegetotherium at Fossilworks.org
3. Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo; Tineo, David Eric; Bona, Paula; Pérez, Leandro Martín; Vergani, Gustavo Dardo; Ruiz, Gloria González; Poiré, Daniel Gustavo (2021-05-14). "A singular Hegetotheriinae (Notoungulata, Typotheria) from the late Oligocene-Early Miocene of the Subandean Region of Bolivia". Brazilian Journal of Geology. 51 (2). doi:10.1590/2317-4889202120200067. ISSN 2317-4889.
4. A. G. Kramarz and M. Bond. 2017. Systematics and stratigraphical range of the hegetotheriids Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus and Prohegetotherium sculptum (Mammalia: Notoungulata). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(12):1027-1036