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Description

Notohippidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America. Notohippids are known from the Eocene and Oligocene epochs.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)3240531https://www.gbif.org/species/3240531
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)43379https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43379
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Notohippidae
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Notoungulata : Notohippidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
subclassTribosphenida
infraclassEutheria
orderNotoungulataRoth 1903
suborderToxodontiaAmeghino 1887
familyNotohippidaeAmeghino 1894
Scientific NameNotohippidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to Litopternastated without evidenceAmeghino, 1894
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to Litopternastated with evidenceAmeghino, 1897
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to Toxodontiastated with evidenceSimpson, 1967
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to ToxodontiaimpliedCarroll, 1988
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to Toxodontastated without evidenceBond and López, 1993
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to Notoungulatastated without evidenceCerdeño and Vera, 2010
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to Toxodontiastated without evidenceLópez et al., 2010
Notohippidaefamilybelongs to Toxodontiastated with evidenceDeraco and GarcÍa-López, 2016
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)51
First Recorded Appearance56.0 - 42.0 Ma
Eocene
Last Recorded Appearance13.8 - 11.8 Ma
Miocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Eutheria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietherbivore (based on Notoungulata)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notohippidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
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Acoelohyrax
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
648.6 Ma
Eocene
37.2 Ma
Eocene
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Argyrohippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
121.0 Ma
Miocene
21.0 Ma
Miocene
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Coresodon
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
229.0 Ma
Oligocene
29.0 Ma
Oligocene
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Eomorphippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1348.0 Ma
Eocene
33.9 Ma
Oligocene
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Eurygenium
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
329.0 Ma
Oligocene
29.0 Ma
Oligocene
Interhippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
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Mendozahippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
329.0 Ma
Oligocene
29.0 Ma
Oligocene
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Moqueguahippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
429.0 Ma
Oligocene
28.4 Ma
Oligocene
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Morphippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
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Nesohippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
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Notohippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
320.4 Ma
Miocene
17.5 Ma
Miocene
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Pampahippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
948.6 Ma
Eocene
37.2 Ma
Eocene
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Pascualihippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
329.0 Ma
Oligocene
29.0 Ma
Oligocene
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Patagonhippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
233.9 Ma
Oligocene
33.9 Ma
Oligocene
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Perhippidion
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
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Pseudhippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
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Rhynchippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1556.0 Ma
Paleocene
28.4 Ma
Oligocene
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Rosendo
genus
listed (PBDB)538.0 Ma
Eocene
33.9 Ma
Oligocene
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Stilhippus
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
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Trimerostephanos
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
129.0 Ma
Oligocene
29.0 Ma
Oligocene

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Eurygeniops normalis Ameghino, 1897GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Eurygeniops normalis
Rhynchippidae GBIFfamilyAnimalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Rhynchippidae

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1894Notohippidae Ameghino
1897Notohippidae Ameghino p. 456
1897Eurygeniops normalis Ameghino p. 466
1902Interhippus Ameghino p. 13
1914Rhynchippidae Loomis p. 89
1945Rhynchippinae Simpson
1967Notohippidae Simpson
1988Interhippus Carroll
YearName and Author
1988Notohippidae Carroll
1993Notohippidae Bond and López
1997Notohippidae Shockey
2009Notohippidae Shockey et al.
2010Notohippidae Cerdeño and Vera
2010Notohippidae López et al.
2016Notohippidae Deraco and GarcÍa-López p. 2

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Ameghino F. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)], Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18 4–9, 406-521
Ameghino F. (1902) Notices préliminaires sur des mammifères nouveaux des terrains Crétacé de Patagonie {preliminary notes on new mammals from the Cretaceous terrains of Patagonia], Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba 17, 5-70
Simpson G. G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85, 1-350
Simpson G. G. (1967) The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part II., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 137, 1-260
Bond M., López G. M. (1993) El primer Notohippidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) de la Formación Lumbrera (Grupo Salta) del noroeste Argentino. Consideraciones sobre la sistematica de la familia Notohippidae, Ameghiniana 30 1, 59-68
Shockey B. J. (1997) Two new notoungulates (Family Notohippidae) from the Salla Beds of Bolivia (Deseadan: Late Oligocene): systematics and functional morphology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17 3, 584-599
Shockey B. J., Gismondi R. S., et al (2009) Paleontology and geochronology of the Deseadan (late Oligocene) of Moquegua, Peru, American Museum Novitates 3668, 1-24 doi:10.1206/662.1
Cerdeño E., Vera B. (2010) Mendozahippus fierensis, gen. et sp. nov., new Notohippidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene of Mendoza (Argentina), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 6, 1805-1817 doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.520781
López G. M., Ribeiro A. M., et al (2010) The Notohippidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from Gran Barranca: preliminary considerations, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia, 143-151
Deraco V., GarcÍa-López D. A. (2016) A new Eocene Toxodontia (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from northwestern Argentina, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 1, e1037884:1-11 doi: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1037884
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
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