Scaglia (mammal)

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

This article is about the Eocene South American mammal. For other uses, see Scaglia.

Scaglia
Temporal range: Mid-Late Eocene (Casamayoran-Divisaderan)
~48.6–37.2 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Astrapotheria
Family:
†Astrapotheriidae
Genus:
†Scaglia

Species

†Scaglia kraglievichorum
Simpson 1957

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
  1. Scaglia in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved August 2017
  2. Quintana 2008, pp. 4–5
  3. Scaglia kraglievichorum in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved March 2013.
  4. Rose 2006, p. 236
  5. Bond, Mariano; Kramarz, Alejandro; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; Reguero, Marcelo (2011). "A new astrapothere (Mammalia, Meridiungulata) from La Meseta Formation, Seymour (Marambio) Island, and a reassessment of previous records of Antarctic astrapotheres" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3718: 16. doi:10.1206/3718.2.

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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