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Proterotheriidae is an family of ungulates known from the - of . Members of the group were small-medium sized with brachydont , with their showing progressive reduction, with later members of the group bearing weight on a single large toe similar to living .


Description
Two subfamilies and 18 genera of Proterotheriidae are known. All forms were small or medium-sized. Typical is a reduction of the number of toes and brachydont or mesodont teeth. The family is recorded since the late Palaeocene. Various fossils are known from many parts of the South American continent. The diversity decreased in the Miocene to Pliocene and it has been assumed for a long time that they entirely disappeared in the late Pliocene. However, fossils found in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay show that one member of the group, recens survived into the Late .

Better known genera of the family include and from the Miocene.'']]


Taxonomy

Proterotheriidae is traditionally considered to include two subfamilies, Anisolambdinae and Proterotheriinae. Anisolambdinae (also called Anisolambdidae in some studies) was proposed to unite the primitive and earlier forms , , , , Guilielmofloweria, , , and . However, the phylogenetic analysis of McGrath and colleagues recovered the included genera to neither form their own clade, or to universally represent basal taxa outside the genera of Proterotheriinae per Soria, making Anisolambdinae a group of unrelated organisms.

Proterotheriidae was redefined by McGrath and colleagues in 2019 to be all taxa closer to than , or . The cladogram below shows the modified results of their phylogenetic analysis, where incomplete taxa were placed based on morphology. The unrelated genera of the polyphyletic taxon Anisolambdinae or Anisolambdidae is highlighted in pink.

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