Scaglia kraglievichorum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Astrapotheria |
Family: | †Astrapotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Astrapotheriinae |
Genus: | †Scaglia Simpson, 1957 |
Species: | †S. kraglievichorum
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Binomial name | |
†Scaglia kraglievichorum Simpson, 1957
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Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran to Divisaderan in the SALMA classification).[1]
The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia,[2] and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich.
Its type specimen, recovered from the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina, is MMCNT-MdP 207.[3] Like Albertogaudrya, Scaglia was the size of a sheep or a small tapir, hence among the larger mammals in South America at that time.[4]
Cladogram according to Bond et al., 2011, standing out the phylogenetic position of Scaglia:[5]