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Rank | species |
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Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Interatheriidae : Antepithecus : Antepithecus brachystephanus |
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Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Notoungulata : Notopithecidae : Antepithecus : Antepithecus brachystephanus |
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Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification (PBDB,GBIF) | |
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Generic Name | Antepithecus |
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Scientific Name | Antepithecus brachystephanus Ameghino, 1901 |
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Opinions (PBDB) | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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Antepithecus brachystephanus | species | belongs to Antepithecus | stated with evidence | Simpson, 1967 | Antepithecus brachystephanus | species | belongs to Antepithecus | stated without evidence | , 1986 | Antepithecus brachystephanus | species | belongs to Antepithecus | stated with evidence | Vera and Cerdeño, 2014 |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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First Recorded Appearance | 55.8 - 48.0 Ma Eocene |
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Last Recorded Appearance | 38.0 - 33.9 Ma Paleogene |
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Environment | terrestrial (based on Eutheria) |
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Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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Diet | herbivore (based on Notoungulata) |
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Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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Primary Reference (PBDB) | F. Ameghino. 1901. Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia]. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16:349-429 |
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Ameghino F. (1901) Notices préliminaires sur des ongulés nouveaux des terrains crétacés de Patagonie [Preliminary notes on new ungulates from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia], Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 16, 349-429 |
Ameghino F. (1902) Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia], Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17, 5-70 |
Ameghino F. (1904) Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic], Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58, 1-142 |
Simpson G. G. (1967) The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part II., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 137, 1-260 |
Reguero M. A., Prevosti F. J. (2010) Rodent-like notoungulates (Typotheria) from Gran Barranca, Chubut Province, Argentina: phylogeny and systematics, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia, 148-165 |
Vera B., Cerdeño E. (2014) Systematic revision of Antepithecus brachystephanus Ameghino, 1901, and dental eruption sequence in Eocene ‘‘notopithecines’’ (Notoungulata) from Patagonia, Geobios 47, 165-181 |