Macrauchenia patachonica Owen, 1838
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Argentina
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Owen, Richard. (1838). Description of Parts of the Skeleton of Macrauchenia patachonica. In Darwin, C. R. Fossil Mammalia Part 1 No. 1. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. London: Smith Elder and Co.
Other references:
Blanco, R. Ernesto et al. (In Press, 2021). Macrauchenia patachonica Owen, 1838: limb bones morphology, locomotory biomechanics, and paleobiological inferences. Geobios. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.04.006 [Abstract]
de Oliveira, Karoliny et al. (2020). Fantastic beasts and what they ate: Revealing feeding habits and ecological niche of late Quaternary Macraucheniidae from South America. Quaternary Science Reviews 231: 106178. [Abstract]
de Oliveira, Karoliny et al. (In press, 2021). From oral pathology to feeding ecology: The first dental calculus paleodiet study of a South American native megamammal. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103281 [Abstract]
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Püschel, Hans P. and Martinelli, Agustín G. (2023). More than 100 years of a mistake: on the anatomy of the atlas of the enigmatic Macrauchenia patachonica. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142: 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00279-1
Scherer, C.S., Pitana, V.G., Ribeiro, A.M., 2009, Proterotheriidae and Macrauchenidae (Liptoterna, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil: Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 12(3), 231-246.
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Welker, Frido et al. (2015). Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates. Nature 522: 81-84.
Michael Westbury, Sina Baleka, Axel Barlow, Stefanie Hartmann, Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Alejandro Kramarz, Analía M Forasiepi, Mariano Bond, Javier N. Gelfo, Marcelo A. Reguero, Patricio López-Mendoza, Matias Taglioretti, Fernando Scaglia, Andrés Rinderknecht, Washington Jones, Francisco Mena, Guillaume Billet, Christian de Muizon, José Luis Aguilar, Ross D.E. MacPhee & Michael Hofreiter. (2017). A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica. Nature Communications 8: 15951. doi:10.1038/ncomms15951.
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