Biology:Scaglia kraglievichorum

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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals

Scaglia kraglievichorum
Temporal range: Mid-Late Eocene (Casamayoran-Divisaderan)
~48.6–37.2 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Astrapotheria
Family: Astrapotheriidae
Subfamily: Astrapotheriinae
Genus: Scaglia
Simpson, 1957
Species:
S. kraglievichorum
Binomial name
Scaglia kraglievichorum
Simpson, 1957

Scaglia is an extinct genus of South American astrapotherid land mammal that lived during the Eocene (Casamayoran to Divisaderan in the SALMA classification).[1]

Etymology

The genus was named after Argentinian naturalist Galileo Juan Scaglia,[2] and the type species after Argentinian palaeontologist Lucas Kraglievich.

Description

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]

Phylogeny

Cladogram according to Bond et al., 2011, standing out the phylogenetic position of Scaglia:[5]

Astrapotheria

Eoastrapostylops

Trigonostylops

Tetragonostylops

Antarctodon

Albertogaudrya

Scaglia

Astrapotheriidae

Astraponotus

Maddenia

Parastrapotherium

Astrapotherium

Granastrapotherium

References

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Carroll, Robert Lynn (1988). Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 9780716718222. OCLC 14967288. 
  • Simpson, George Gaylord (1957). "A new Casamayoran astrapothere". Revista del Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales y Tradicional de Mar del Plata 1 (3): 11–18. OCLC 81633287. 

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