Macraucheniinae

Extinct subfamily of mammals

Macraucheniinae
Temporal range: Late Miocene to Early Holocene (Mayoan-Lujanian) 11.6–0.01 Ma
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Macrauchenia patachonica skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Litopterna
Superfamily: Macrauchenioidea
Family: Macraucheniidae
Subfamily: Macraucheniinae
Gervais, 1855
Genera

Macraucheniinae is an extinct subfamily of macraucheniids that lived from the Late Miocene and potentially the Early Holocene, consisting of all the derived genera.[2][3]

Classification

Below is a cladogram proposed by Schmidt et al., (2014), showing the phylogenetic relationships between the genera of macraucheniines:[4]

References

  1. ^ Püschel, Hans P.; Alarcón-Muñoz, Jhonatan; Soto-Acuña, Sergio; Ugalde, Raúl; Shelley, Sarah L.; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2023-02-25). "Anatomy and phylogeny of a new small macraucheniid (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Bahía Inglesa Formation (late Miocene), Atacama Region, Northern Chile". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. doi:10.1007/s10914-022-09646-0. ISSN 1573-7055.
  2. ^ Cheme-Arriaga, Lucas; Dozo, MarÍa Teresa; Gelfo, Javier N. (2016-11-01). "A new Cramaucheniinae (Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (6): e1229672. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1229672. ISSN 0272-4634.
  3. ^ Analía M. Forasiepi; Ross D. E. MacPhee; Santiago Hernández del Pino; Gabriela I. Schmidt; Eli Amson; Camille Grohé (2016). "Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the late Miocene of Argentina: anatomy, systematics, and paleobiological implications" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 404: 1–76. doi:10.1206/0003-0090-404.1.1. hdl:2246/6659. S2CID 89219979.
  4. ^ Schmidt, Gabriela I.; Ferrero, Brenda S. (September 2014). "Taxonomic Reinterpretation of Theosodon hystatus Cabrera and Kraglievich, 1931 (Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Family". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1231–1238. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.837393. hdl:11336/18953.
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Uncertain placement
Theosodon garretorum

Macrauchenia patachonica

Diadiaphorus majusculus
incertae sedis
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Huilatherium pluriplicatum

Toxodon platensis
Taxon identifiers
Macraucheniidae