Paranauchenia

Paranauchenia

Taxobox
name = "Paraunauchenia"
status = Fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = †Litopterna
familia = †Macraucheniidae
genus = †"Paranauchenia"
species = †"P. denticulata"
binomial = "Paranauchenia denticulata"
binomial_authority = Owen, 1838

"Paranauchenia" is an extinct genus of the South American litopterns, related to "Macrauchenia", belonging to the same family, Macraucheniidae, and is known only from fossil finds in South America. It possessed three toes and long limbs. The species "Paranauchenia denticulata" lived in the Miocene epoch in Argentina.

ee also

*Macrauchenia


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