Sudamerica
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Sudamerica, literally "South America" in Spanish, is a genus of mammal from the extinct suborder Gondwanatheria that lived in Patagonia, Argentina (Salamanca Formation) and Antarctica (La Meseta Formation) from the Middle Paleocene (Peligran), just after the end of the "Age of Dinosaurs", to the Early Eocene (Casamayoran).
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sudamerica is referenced by 155 other articles, and connects out to Eobaataridae, Pinheirodontidae and Loxaulax valdensis.
Vinony files it under Casamayoran, Fossils of Antarctica and Fossils of Argentina.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Sudamericidae
- Image
- Sudamerica jaw.svg
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- start time
- 61700000-0
- end time
- 48600000-0
- taxon name
- Sudamerica
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Sudamerica (genus)
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Sudamerica, literally "South America" in Spanish, is a genus of mammal from the extinct suborder Gondwanatheria that lived in Patagonia, Argentina (Salamanca Formation) and Antarctica (La Meseta Formation) from the Middle Paleocene (Peligran), just after the end of the "Age of Dinosaurs", to the Early Eocene (Casamayoran).
== Etymology == The genus and species were named by Scillato-Yané and R. Pascual in 1984. The genus is also known by the synonym Sudamericana and the species epithet ameghinoi refers to notable Argentinian paleontologist Florentino Ameghino.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sudamerica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.