Hypsitherium

Hypsitherium; Temporal range: Pliocene (Chapadmalalan); ~4.0–3.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Notoungulata
Family:	†Mesotheriidae
Genus:	†Hypsitherium; Anaya & MacFadden 1995
Species:	†H. bolivianum
Binomial name
	†Hypsitherium bolivianum; Anaya & MacFadden 1995

Hypsitherium is an extinct genus of Mesotheriidae that lived 4.0 to 3 million years ago. It is known from the Miocene to Pliocene Inchasi fossil locality in Bolivia. Hypsitherium was a scansorial herbivore, and its name translates to "high beast."^[1]^[2]

References[edit]

^ "Fossilworks: Hypsitherium". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ Anaya, Federico; MacFadden, Bruce J. (December 12, 1995). "Pliocene mammals from Inchasi, Bolivia: The endemic fauna just before the Great American Interchange" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 39 (9): 87–140. doi:10.58782/flmnh.jxpv7528. Retrieved 2016-09-24.

Further reading[edit]

B. J. MacFadden, F. Anaya, and J. Argollo. 1993. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Inchasi: a Pliocene mammal-bearing locality from the Bolivian Andes deposited just before the Great American Interchange. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 114(2-3):229-241

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[1] "Fossilworks: Hypsitherium". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[2] Anaya, Federico; MacFadden, Bruce J. (December 12, 1995). "Pliocene mammals from Inchasi, Bolivia: The endemic fauna just before the Great American Interchange" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 39 (9): 87–140. doi:10.58782/flmnh.jxpv7528. Retrieved 2016-09-24.

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