Hegetotheria

Taxobox
name = HegetotheriaMcKenna & Bell, 1997, pp. 465-466.]
fossil_range = ?late Paleocene-early Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia


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image_caption = "Propachyrukhos ameghinorum" fossil
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = †Notoungulata
subordo = †Hegetotheria
subordo_authority = Simpson, 1945
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
* †Archaeohyracidae
* †Hegetotheriidae

Hegetotheria is a suborder of the extinct mammalian order Notoungulata and includes two families, Archaeohyracidae and Hegetotheriidae. Cifelli (1993) indicated that the suborder Typotheria would be paraphyletic if it excluded members of Hegetotheria and he advocated inclusion of the hegetothere families in Typotheria.

Notes

References

*Cifelli, Richard L. 1993. The phylogeny of the native South American ungulates. pp. 195-216 "in" F. S. Szalay, M. J. Novacek and M. C. McKenna ("eds.") "Mammal Phylogeny, Volume 2, Placentals". Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 0-387-97853-4
*McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. "Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level." Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8