Pleurocoelodon Ameghino 1894 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Isotemnidae

Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1894. Sur les oiseaux fossiles de Patagonie; et la faune mammalogique des couches à Pyrotherium. Boletin del Instituto Geographico Argentino 15:501-660

Parent taxon: Isotemnidae according to F. Ameghino 1897

Sister taxa: Acoelohyrax, Anisotemnus, Calodontotherium, Coelostylodon, Colhuapia, Colhuapia rosei, Colhuelia, Distylophorus, Eurystephanodon crassatus, Interhippus deflexus, Isotemnus, Lafkenia, Lafkenia schmidti, Lafkenia sulcifera, Lophocoelus, Pampatemnus, Pehuenia magna, Pelurocoelodon, Pleurostylodon, Rhyphodon, Thomashuxleya, Thomashuxleya principialis, Trigonolophodon modicus, Trimerostephanos

Subtaxa: Pleurocoelodon cingulatus Pleurocoelodon wingei

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Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pleurocoelodon in the database

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