In Depth Trigodon seems to have been a large heavily built herbivore of the late Miocene of South America. Combined with reasonably long legs for its build, Trigodon is considered to have inhabited wetland swamps were it browsed upon softer vegetation. The most striking feature of Trigodon is the spiked horn that rises from the … Read more
In Depth Although the name means ‘snout horse’, Rhynchippus was actually a notoungulate, a group of South American mammals completely unrelated to horses. Rhynchippus was actually an early relative to the much larger Toxodon that would appear much later around the Pliocene/Pleistocene eras. The similarity between Rhynchippus and primitive horses like Mesohippus is a case … Read more
In Depth Mendozahippus is a mammal genus that lived in South America during the Oligocene. Further Reading - Mendozahippus fierensis, gen. et sp. nov., new Notohippidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene of Mendoza (Argentina). - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1805-1817. - E. Cerde�o & B. Vera -2010.
In Depth Protypotherium might have looked like a long legged rabbit, but it was actually a notoungulate, a group of mammals unrelated to rabbits. The biggest confusion about Protypotherium is regarding its diet since it possesses all forty-four mammalian teeth, yet no real specialisation towards a specific diet. While Protypotherium is usually interpreted as being … Read more