Name:
Mendozahippus.
Phonetic: Men-do-zah-hip-pus.
Named By: E. Cerde�o & B. Vera -2010.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Notoungulata, Notohippidae.
Species: M. fierensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Argentina - Agua de la Piedra
Formation.
Time period: Late Oligocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains including the
skull.
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.