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Granastrapotherium
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Granastrapotherium is an extinct genus of ungulate mammals, described from remains found in rocks of the Honda Group in the Tatacoa Desert,[1] in the Colombian departments of Huila and Tolima, at the Miocene fossil site La Venta. The only species formally recognized is Granastrapotherium snorki (from Spanish, gran, "great"; Astrapotherium, "lightning beast"; and snorkel, breathing tube, in reference to the trunk). Remains found in Bolivia and Peru,[2] seem to belong to Granastrapotherium or a very similar animal.
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Granastrapotherium | |
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Reconstructed skull of G. snorki | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Astrapotheria |
Family: | †Astrapotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Uruguaytheriinae |
Genus: | †Granastrapotherium Johnson & Madden, 1997 |
Species: | †G. snorki |
Binomial name | |
†Granastrapotherium snorki Johnson & Madden, 1997 | |
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