Sudamerica
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This article is about a genus of Paleogene mammals. For the continent, see South America.
Sudamerica, literally "South America" in Spanish, is a genus of mammal from the extinct suborder Gondwanatheria that lived in Patagonia, Argentina (Salamanca Formation) and Antarctica (La Meseta Formation) from the Middle Paleocene (Peligran), just after the end of the "Age of Dinosaurs", to the Early Eocene (Casamayoran).[1]
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Sudamerica | |
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Mandible with first and second molars | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Family: | †Sudamericidae |
Genus: | †Sudamerica Scillato-Yané & Pascual, 1984 |
Species: | †S. ameghinoi |
Binomial name | |
†Sudamerica ameghinoi (Scillato-Yané & Pascual, 1984) | |
Location of Sudamerica discovery: Punta Peligro, Argentina |
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