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The Pampas deer (Ozotoceros ... Fossil records indicate that New World deer traveled to South America from North America as part of the Great American Interchange ...
Morenelaphus is an extinct genus of capreoline deer that lived in South America during the Pleistocene, ranging from the Pampas to southern Bolivia and Northeast Brazil. There is only a single recognised species, Morenelaphus brachyceros. It was a large deer, with some specimens estimated to exceed 200 kilograms in body mass. [1]
Similar to the smaller deer of today, such as the pudus, the pampas deer and the muntjac, Neolicaphrium was a browsing herbivore. The isotopic analysis of the fossils indicates that Neolicaphrium fed mainly on fruits and to a lesser extent on terrestrial plants that grew at ground level, and that leaves were only a very limited part of their ...
This is a list of the native mammal species recorded in Argentina.As of January 2020, the list contains 402 mammal species from Argentina, of which one is extinct, seven are critically endangered, seventeen are endangered, sixteen are vulnerable, and thirty are near threatened.
Hippocamelus is a genus of Cervidae, the deer family. It comprises two extant Andean and two fossil species. The living members are commonly known as the huemul (from the Mapuche language), and the taruca, also known as northern huemul. Both species have a stocky, thick, and short-legged body.
From Kuntinaru ("ghost"), which "refers to the ghost-like isolated occurrence of this taxon and the subsequent 12 Myr absence of the tolypeutines in the fossil record" [134] Kurupi itaata † abelisaurid: Guaraní and Tupi: The genus name derives from Kurupi, a Guaraní god of fertility and sex, because the fossils were found near a love hotel.
The Chacoan peccary or tagua (Catagonus wagneri or Parachoerus wagneri) is the last extant species of the genus Catagonus; [3] it is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina.
Fossils from the Late Pleistocene suggest a different distribution during this time, being mostly found in more southern areas (such as the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina). Based on the other species that coexisted with it during this period, the central-northern Buenos Aires Province was likely arid or semi-arid in the Late Pleistocene.